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Illinois gun groups report confusion, 'civil disobedience' after deadline passes to register 'assault' weapons
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-gun-groups-report-confusion-civil-disobedience-after-deadline-passes-to-register-assault-weapons/ar-AA1mxG3WOpen linkView original on lemm.ee-23
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/us-political-violence-justified-survey
"One in three Republicans believe that “true American patriots” may have to resort to violence to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats – all representing increases since 2021. Almost one in three white evangelical Protestants believe that patriots may have to resort to political violence to save the country, markedly higher than any other religious group.
Support for political violence jumps to even higher levels among Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump (46%); Americans who hold a favourable view of Trump (41%); Americans who believe in the so-called “replacement theory” (41%); Americans who affirm the core tenet of white Christian nationalism, that God intended America to be a new promised land for European Christians (39%)."
You got it backwards.
That's what democrats say as well. But words are cheap.
This just isn't even close to true, and you know it.
Yes they do.
So in other words, you've completely failed to understand the reason behind the unrest that happened in the wake of that event.
Already disproved this nonsense here:
https://lemm.ee/comment/7992962
I notice you have mentioned the summer of love several times in your posts. I am curious about your experience, would you mind telling us a little bit about where and when you witnessed violence, and give a few details about how this pushed you to take self defence more seriously?
As for the law, I don't really see how a gun registry practically helps or protects anyone. It seems to me the budget for a gun registry office would be better spent on mental health and social support networks that can identify and help people before they become so hopless they start mass murdering people.
Fucking horrible man. Was that in 1967?
Edit: thanks for sharing that. I wondered if it was not a good idea to ask you to relive old trauma. Just witnessing violence can have a long term effect on somebody and I'm sorry you had to carry that.
Ok. I see we are getting a little off topic here but you should know that when you say "summer of love" without context, that could be taken to mean 1967 when droves of hippies descended on San Francisco.
Anyway again, I'm sorry you had to witness that. It is a shame that so much anger and violence erupted after the brutal murder of George Floyd by registered republican police thug Derek Chauvin. The world needs less violence, not more.
Perhaps if more black folks had guns, then it would no longer be true that, according to the British Medical Journal,"Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than 3 times as high as in Whites." Maybe then such riots could be a thing of the past.
Does anybody care that we are going ridiculously way off topic?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-paradox-police-killings/
Thanks for posting this good read. This article makes a lot of sense.
" These statistics are consistent with excessive use of deadly force against Black people, due to a mathematical phenomenon called Simpson’s Paradox.
The key point is that not all encounters with police are equally deadly. In any given kind of encounter with the police, a Black person can be likelier to be killed than a white person even if the overall rate of deaths per encounter appears lower for Black people. This would happen because Black people have many more interactions with police in non-deadly situations — a dynamic exacerbated by racism. And all those extra encounters dilute the rate."
Again you didn't read the article you posted. It agrees with the findings of JMA and contradicts your false claim. It seems reality disagrees with you again. I'm sorry. This must be difficult for you.
Which types of firearms or guns are not assault weapons and which types of guns are assault weapons?
That is a strictly a political phrase that was created, "assault weapon", in attempt to scare people into submission to allow for tyrannical government without restraints.
Under the original intent and then current day understanding of the constitution, individuals are allow to buy fully automatic maxhine guns without a background check and without a license. As well every citizen is permitted to carry conceled guns without a license.
Name a law that can be written to force an individual who is dedicated to committing murder into following the law and not buy a gun to aid in committing murder.
If it's impossible to stop/reduce gun deaths, it's really strange how the U.S. is basically the only developed and stable country with shit loads of gun deaths.
Nobody gets shot in Germany.