Texans suddenly scared of guns when they're used to protect Drag Queens Story Time

[RickMycroft]

I hope someone took the time to gunsplain to the guy in the video that there’s no such thing as an AR-47.

[CarlMud]

@FloridaManJefe

or perhaps that they should be the only ones allowed to carry guns and intimidate.

Which is literally ripped from the fascist playbook:

When the Nazi party gained power, some aspects of gun regulation were loosened, such as allowing firearm ownership for Nazi party members and the military. The laws were tightened in other ways. Nazi laws systematically disarmed so-called “unreliable” persons, especially Jews while relaxing restrictions for “ordinary” German citizens

Nazi gun control argument

I saw a bunch of conservatives on Reddit ranting about how they’re only opposed to children being exposed to sexualized displays while I recalled my childhood in the South dining at Hooters and watching my adult uncle slap teenage girls on the butt and complimenting them on their cleavage. A different uncle worked in New Orleans and took my young cousins to the French Quarter during Mardi Gras for several years.

[Hanglyman]

Much as pro-lifers don’t actually care about unborn babies, just controlling and punishing women, the gun-obsessed don’t actually care about the oh-so-sacred 2nd amendment and personal freedoms, just in ensuring they have power to intimidate others with violence. The moment folks who aren’t straight white right-wing men start arming themselves, the veil drops, the hypocrisy shoots off like a rocket, and the naked bigotry is all that remains.

[jerwin]

Daily survival shouldn’t depend on learning to shoot straight. Yet here we are.

[cepheus42]

Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Official Music Video)

[leicester]

I’d pledge to that Kickstarter.

[ddmone]

Gotta love the gadsden flag Buff while he’s literally there to tread on people and their rights.

[KathyPartdeux]

Absolutely we should defend ourselves. But nobody needs military style weapons.

Plenty of others to choose from.

[WHY_NOT]

Yep, no need to advertise.

[Kilkrazy]

It could be a follow-up to the Macho Women with Guns/Bat-winged Bimbos from Hell/Renegade Nuns on Wheels series put out by Blacksburg Tactical Research Center about 1990.

[Brainspore]

@CarlMud

Historians and fact-checkers have characterized the argument as dubious or false, and point out that Jews were under 1% of the population and that it would be unrealistic for such a small population to defend themselves or overthrow the state even if they were armed.

“An entire ethnic group never could have been forcibly relocated to prison camps in a country where citizens enjoyed Second Amendment rights!” scream the people who apparently never heard about what happened to American citizens of Japanese ancestry.

[nytespryte]

@CarlMud

A different uncle worked in New Orleans and took my young cousins to the French Quarter during Mardi Gras for several years.

I agree on the hypocrisy but I feel the need to point out that I get really mad at suggestions that Mardi Gras is an adult holiday that children shouldn’t be allowed to attend, ( I’m not saying that you are saying that but I’ve heard it before.)

I was the most mad at some tourists complaining about children at parades in a neighborhood where all the crowd was families and people from the neighborhood. This was not Bourbon St, ain’t nobody was flashing for beads.

And even with that, I did get to go to the French Quarter some years when I was little with my grandmother, sure some people got a little wild but it was fun, I was definitely not traumatized.

@CarlMud

I recalled my childhood in the South dining at Hooters and watching my adult uncle slap teenage girls on the butt and complimenting them on their cleavage

Being brought to a Hooters and having adult men in my life treat the wait staff in that manner, that would have deeply disturbed me as a kid.

Edit: especially seeing as my Mom was a waitress when she had work

[lastchance]

@theodore604

rainbow festooned assault weapon carrying punks in body armor

[TheEvilCub]

Its like the “No Homers” club. Don’t tread on HIM. Other treading is fine in his book.

[Mister44]

#defendequality.

None of them mention the presence of the right-wing militia members carrying barbed-wire baseball bats.

@MonkeyT12

Rightwing Harley Quinn Cosplay.

Pretty fucking ironic you wear a “don’t tread on me” gaiter while trying to tread on others.

[MononymousSean]

A few relevant tenets from the perspective of the right wing:

• Guns are good unless other people have them
• Cops are good unless they’re enforcing laws against us
• Only we can decide when it’s time to rise up and overthrow the government

It’s all a spin on the Wilhoit quote:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[gatto]

@Mister44

Pretty fucking ironic you wear a “don’t tread on me” gaiter while trying to tread on others.

re: what @MononymousSean said:

@MononymousSean

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

there must be in-groups on whom we don’t tread, and out-groups upon whom we tread freely.

i think that’s the logic there.

( it is a kind of interesting thing that motto wasn’t “don’t tread on us” – the call to individual rights instead of rights for all individuals is itself perhaps telling )

[smulder]

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North Texas school district rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic, rainbow

[Gyrofrog]

As I mentioned elsewhere, it’s Southlake (Carroll ISD), again.

[Mindysan33]

@Mister44

Pretty fucking ironic you wear a “don’t tread on me” gaiter while trying to tread on others.

These people really don’t do irony. They genuinely believe that checks notes drag is an existential threat to their “way of life”…