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Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking FINALLY.

Yes, women should be armed. Gay people should be armed. Trans people should be armed. Religious minorities should be armed. People that are on the political left never should have ceded the right to keep and bear arms to the political right.

I'm planning on getting certified as a firearms instructor through the NRA (because no matter how shitty the NRA-ILA is, the training programs are solid) this coming year so that I can start working with The Pink Pistols and Operation Blazing Spear.

I would strongly suggest that people try reading This Nonviolence Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.

If you're one of the people that is considering getting a gun, please listen to the "It Could Happen Here" podcast episode titled, Safe Gun Ownership.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Bad ideas are always bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's only a bad idea when the people who want to hurt you aren't armed. Sadly, in America, that's not the case.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I have a conundrum, maybe people in this thread can weigh in.

I'm a woman living in an area with a small but loud MAGA faction and useless police who are probably also Trump supporters. I'm also not white.

Hunting is common here, and although I've never been I do know how to shoot and have access to classes if I want to improve. We also have friends and family with firearms and a couple of them live nearby.

I feel like I should get a gun. I know how to use one and I want to be able to protect myself if necessary. But I'm scared of firearms. Something about them disturbs me. Maybe it's the likelihood of someone dying once a gun comes out. Maybe it's just a fear, however unfounded, that I can't or shouldn't handle such a powerful tool. But the reason behind the feeling doesn't matter so much as my ability to overcome it, and I'm not sure I can. If I had money to burn I'd buy one just to see how I feel, but I don't so I can't.

In short, I'm torn. I want to be able to just get a gun for peace of mind and call it a day, but I fear that as soon as the gun is in my house I will become a nervous wreck and that will defeat the whole purpose.

I'd love to hear from anyone who feels the same or has overcome this fear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Training and familiarization helped me a lot with that exact feeling. I had the same feeling about circular/table saws. My dad was a carpenter, and those things freaked me the hell out - one tiny mistake could have devastating consequences, and that was all I could think about when I was around them. But with careful instruction and exposure, learing to use and be more comfortable with them, that feeling was gradually replaced by calm and confidence, and they changed in my mind from these objects of terror into valuable tools. There was still fear, but it was a healthy, respectful fear.

I went through the exact same process with guns as well. Some classes with a good instructor, giving you a chance to get more comfortable and familiar before you bring a gun into your home, could help a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Take a reputable course and learn about guns. They are dangerous in the hands of irresponsible untrained yokels but if you are smart and informed they can empower you and safeguard your well being.

Guns have traditionally been a pacifier for anxious right-wing weirdos who are afraid of Nancy Pelosi, but they are also a good hedge against those right-wing weirdos and will be a pacifier for your anxiety about them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't own a gun and feel the same as you. I am leaning toward getting a gun safe and keeping the gun and ammo locked up and hidden. If it gathers dust that's great, but having it there if I need it would be a comfort I think.

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

You do not want to have a gun that you're not comfortable with. Having to deal with a high stress situation and then trying to use a gun when you don't have brain-dead levels of familiarity with it is asking the trouble. Luckily it's fairly cheap to build most of the muscle-memory with dry-fire and handling drills. But if you plan on using it for home defense or personal protection, you need to be prepared so that your mind can focus on other things during your troubles.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

The whole Russian project was to have our "polite society" collapse as we, as Americans, lost all faith in our institutions and turned against one another and in the process, also lost any kind of collective identity, which makes us a weaker target externally. That happened.

It's crazy to me, looking back, how much this was openly discussed along the way, as it successfully happened in slow motion over the last 10-15 years - wasn't there also a book released that just laid their strategy bare? If there are historians in the future, will be amazing to read the perspective on all of this with time and analysis from those not trapped within the cycle of death and hopelessness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Yes it is called the foundations of geopolitics, written by Aleksandr Dugin. Its free to read on the internet archive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It works because those of us who read and learn about things like this are a minority of the population. Not one large enough to counteract the effect either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I think our society in reality is fine mostly; gun sales to conservatives under the Obama administration surged due to their fears at the time; now it happens again just in reverse.

The key problem is that the internet is separating people and allowing foreign actors and cynical domestic interests to create filters of what people hear and see.

you count yourself among a learned few then you should go out and create local events and spread local news as much as possible. People need to interact outside of their bubbles more and they would come to see mostly that they are both reasonable. It is only the facts that are current in question between the two isles, not necessarily the principles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

ah i see Aleksandr Dugin's book is coming along as he planned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Own a corporation that owns all of your property. Have many guns. It's the American way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Checking 2 boxes out of 4 from the Libertarian dream

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago

'Cause nothing solves a gun problem like more guns**

** I am a gun owner for the exact reasons cited in the article.

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