#GunOwners don't understand that they only have a #2A because we have a #1A in the first place.
We are only allowed to keep our guns because we can change our government through peaceful actions.
Once you take away the first amendment, you can only change the government through force, and they will make sure to take away the guns in the name of public safety.
@MikeImBack -- #FreeMahmoudKhalil -- They don't get that their #2A rights are rooted in their #1A rights. Too many #MAGA #Gunowners don't get that if you take away peaceful protest and there is no other way to change your government, you are left with violence. They will then come for the guns in the name of public safety.
#GunOwners #2A #1A #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreedomofSpeech #SocialistGunClub
There are a lot of #MAGA people who claim to love Guns and their freedom of speech awfully silent about this.
PACIFISM allows you to keep your guns. Peaceful protests allow you to keep your guns. If you take away that freedom to express yourself, it only makes violence more likely. If violence becomes the only way to change government, you know full well you no longer have your guns.
ProPublica: Targeted: How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives. “For years, some of America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on customers — without their knowledge or consent — to the gun industry’s main lobbying group. Political operatives then employed those details to rally firearms owners to elect pro-gun […]
@timkmak a great idea for the #usa to copy and thereby solve its inextricable #gunviolence problem, by donating all #ar15 rifles to #ukraine together with the gazillion rounds of 5.56mm #ammunition stockpiled by #gunowners in their homes and #prepper sanctuaries
Since people aren't willing to believe that guns increase risk rather than increasing security, here's the center-right Time Magazine reporting on it in 2022.
Judge Maryellen Noreika swore in 12 #jurors — + 4 alternates — to determine the #legal fate of #HunterBiden, who is on trial for 3 #felony #gun charges….
A substitute #teacher, a fmr #SecretService employee & multiple #GunOwners were among those chosen to report back to court Tues morning, when opening arguments are expected to begin.…Most were people of color, &…appeared to range from mid-20s to 70s.
