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Dave á Jus
Dave á Jus
@nek@hear-me.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mediabiasfactcheck/116012212097776819

I believe it is the Truth, for better or worse. But also, I believe it is the right thing to say, albeit not without danger. It is a valuable message to put into the world and, of course! like most messages, it is not a call to unjustified violence — nearly all violence cannot adequately be justified. Violent people — those trained with and for violence — always benefit from having a reason or two not to commit it. Like these whitenationalist, mercenary masked-and-bodyarmored, frightened and cynical, militant thugs do every fucking day simply by instigating community disruptions. That's violence right there, and it demands opposition from every facet of Society, and by all means.

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Canadian Glen :mstdnca:
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@canadianglen@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@nek agree. Between #2A and "Stand Your Ground" laws seems defendable

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Dave á Jus
Dave á Jus
@nek@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@canadianglen I don't understand why there has been no organized voice of reasoned historical perspective reinforced with constant repetition, to educate members of current Society ("the Dēmos", or Third Estate; that is, the Public) and deconstruct and correct the false narratives surrounding the Second US Constitutional Amendment. For whom will it ever be possible to inform citizens in a way that the masses will hear, that the Second Amendment was NOT ever about guns. Reagan & Heston & La Pierre created that narrative -- the NRA was completely supportive of gun control before then, because you can't have armed African Americans. 2A was intended by privileged and frightened property owners as protection for their stolen land & their chattel by force; to conscript their vassal neighbors when they - and not any legal/government authority - considered it necessary for them to hoard or recover any property that had been expropriated (stolen land) or had run away (women, livestock, or slaves -- laws made little distinction) either to return them dead or alive, and to kill any indigenous people they encountered. Fundamentally this constitutional amendment had nothing whatever to do with guns, until Wayne LaPierre, Charlton Heston, and their "Federalist" fundraiser pals made that claim to warp the Constitution to fit their own white-christian-nationalist, prosperity theology after Ronald Reagan's White Fear gun control measures. Until that time the NRA was in favor of #gunControl

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