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They went to a gun range for a birthday celebration. Then came the threats from right-wing extremists. (inewsource.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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About two hours after leaving the range, a Twitter account that espouses right-wing views started posting about the friends’ location. Video footage published online three weeks later shows an associate of the American Guard, a group with white supremacist ties, yelling at a rally that she got the friends’ names and numbers from Discount Gun Mart.

The friends haven’t been able to prove how exactly their whereabouts and activities became public, but they believe it occurred after a Gun Mart employee recognized Loder as a left-wing activist. Loder has garnered attention for exposing members of hate groups and documenting people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gun ownership making you safer is a myth. You can parse gun violence into mental health events, violent crime, and accidents, but none of those categories are made better by owning a gun.

When you are around guns, things get more violent, not less.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, it would be nice if nobody had guns. But it really sucks when the Nazis and the cops have guns, and nobody else does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. I've been saying for years that ceding all the guns to one side of the political discussion was a recipe for disaster. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Precisely. I may not be safe with a gun, but why should I let the bad people in the world be the only one who is armed?