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US firearms examiners declared ‘essential’ shutdown workers after gun-lobby pressure
(www.theguardian.com)
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Obviously those are essential to flight a fascist state. I wonder when we will see it actually getting used for that instead of mowing down children.
Nobody has used a machine gun or even full auto in a school shooting. Spreading misinformation, even as a joke, is not helpful.
That is not how you win this war. Spread as much misinformation against fascists as possible. There is no downside to this. You need to muddy the waters to leverage that powerful manipulation tool too. You could be 100 % mega correct all the time, it would simply be irrelevant for propagandized people.
If that's your strategy, you and I are not on the same side. I'm not going to fight fascists by becoming them.
How is saying bad things about fascists the same as being fascist?
Fascists lie. I don't want to trade one group of liars for another. Fascists believe the ends justify the means. I don't want to trade one group that believes that for another. If you try to defeat fascists by acting like them, how far do you have to go before I can't tell you apart anymore?
As soon as my blue state stops banning them.
Whoops.
Wait, which state banned what exactly? Are you saying citizens are unable to purchase a firearm in your state?
Silencers and grandfathered fully automatic guns ranging from 10k to 60k are necessary to fight a fascist state? As others have stated, this is just about rich peoples toys.
It was a joke since that was their argument. How is that necessary? Laughable.