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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 128 points 1 week ago

She's not even looking where she's pointing and yet she's got her finger on the trigger.

Weapons handling score 0/10

[-] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago

Also her wrist is bent, which is something that makes me unreasonably angry whenever I see it, whether in real life or in movies/TV.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago
[-] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

After all these years I just realized he also has his thumb behind 🤣

That shot is sure gonna look sooo cool… for .5 seconds

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I have a few tiny guns like that. It would jam on the next shot from limp wristing it. She bought it because it was cute, has no idea how to use it.

For the life of me I cannot see why training requirements violate the 2A.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

For the life of me I cannot see why training requirements violate the 2A.

I think in a perfect world, we should have some sort of impartial training. In the world we live in, I wouldn't trust Trump's administration to set the training requirements. I'm sure step 1 would involve turning over your social media accounts.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Not to mention the guy is holding the buttstock under his armpit and he's got his other hand all the way up at the end of the rail guard...

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[-] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 1 week ago

GOP Keynote speakers for this violent stunt.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 week ago

Been saying it for years now:

Perfect hypocrites.

Anyone left at this point is a full-on cultist, fully subsumed into the hivemind.

[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Hypocrisy is only a failing if you believe in fairness or justice.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 week ago

That is a disgustingly true observation

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[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago
[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Fucking classic

[-] btsax@reddthat.com 55 points 1 week ago

I wish the internet would get over its collective obsession with pointing out conservative double standards. They don't care that they have double standards. In fact its a power move to show that they're above whatever petty moral code everyone else has tied themselves to

[-] freshcow@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

You're correct, of course. But there are still a certain amount of Republican voters who like to pretend they have principles. Then there are also so-called centrists and politically disengaged folks. Sometimes they need to be reminded exactly who these charlatans are, so there can be no excuse for confusing one side of the political spectrum with the other.

[-] Karjalan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I came to the same understanding when I used to counter conspiracy nuts denying climate change and evolution etc.

You'll never convince them they're wrong or hypocrites... But people who stumble upon the thread that are not super critical thinkers will see the discussion and you can help them realise the person is actually full of shit.

Sometimes they can lie believably enough that people fall for it, and some of those people will snap out of it when they see the contradiction and logical fallacies.

[-] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They've beaten you into submission.

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[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago

Yes we all know. Umfortunately the hypocrisy is completely invisible to them, so posts like this are a circlejerk at best.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

It’s good to remind others not in the loop why the propaganda is nuts.

But yeah you’re not convincing MAGA losers of this. How an event makes them feel is more important than the facts and consistency it represents.

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

Trump’s rhetoric was similar to that of Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, who tweeted over the weekend that, “If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.”

Have they seen the multiple angles of footage of this?

Man had a phone in one hand and the person he was helping up in the other.

Unless he had a third hand somewhere, I struggle to see where the fucking gun was.

They really be taking the old GOP doctrine to psychopathic levels just to own the Libs.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

They’ll put whatever spin they can on this to justify the actions of their gestapo.

Jon Stewart says it best:

“They’re lying. We saw it. And that’s how brazen they lie when they know we’ve seen the truth. That’s how they lie when they know we know. Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them. And maybe that more than anything was why Alex Pretti reall was a threat. Because he was brandishing a weapon, a handheld aluminum, 1080p, 60 FPS, weapon of mass illumination. Because there is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.”

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Yes, they have seen the videos. They are lying. They are liars.

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[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Besides which, law enforcement is not legally justified in shooting you damn near no matter what you do. A cop is not a court of law. A cop is not a jury and judge. A cop is not an executioner. Their legal jurisdiction extends to getting you in front of a courtroom and nothing else.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

local nazi supporter on my Facebook basically says it's his fault for being stupid because he should have announced that he had a gun when he began interacting with them

I'm sure that that would go over well

edit: anybody willing to approach ICE/CBP and loudly declare that they have a gun on them?

[-] mrbeano@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Didn't work for Philando Castile, and that was just a road-side interaction with a "standard" cop. Still murdered.

[-] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When will people realize that republicans do not support the first (edit: SECOND, lmao, but yeah first too) amendment? They support use of force to further their agenda. That's it. Making gun ownership out to be a right wing thing is such a gigantic fuckup.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

once fascists get full power, they will attempt to ban it totally throughout the country. mmuch like with russia, last thing putin wants is the populace with firearms.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Conservatism only holds one position, there should be in-groups that are protected but not bound by law, and out-groups that are not protected but bound by law.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago
[-] Asetru@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not from the US and only have a vague understanding of the dynamics on the other side of the pond. But damn would it be funny if of all the things he does this would be his downfall. Like, there's a million reasons not to let that guy near any public office... The pedophilia, the ridicule of disabled people, the dementia, the dismantling of democracy and its institutions, the treatment of women, the lying, you know this list could go on forever. But now there's this one thing he says that any other country on earth regards as a reasonable and sensible thing to enforce, which is "people shouldn't be allowed to carry guns around all the time" and suddenly he has a problem with important voter demographics. Like... this is a problem now? Unlike... *wildly gesturing at everything*...?

[-] poopsmith@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

He didn't lose any support when he said "Take the gun first, due process second" in his first term, so this won't hurt him either. The talking heads are up in arms about it, but this story will be dead in a week and his supporters will forget. All they care about is hurting brown people. It's so dumb.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Guns are more important than human life in the USA. Don't believe me? We have lost 1.5 million Americans to gun violence in the last thirty years. That is more American citizens than all wars we have fought COMBINED... Crickets

Trump could molest a child that looks like his daughter standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue, pull out a gun, and execute her on live television for all to see and not lose a voter.

Trump mentions something negative about guns and voters threaten to leave his camp. That about sums up the insanity we are dealing with.

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[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 week ago

What's wild about the difference is these two are obviously not using their guns in a responsible manner (posing while holding their weapons poorly) but Mr. Pretti was (concealed and holstered because there was no apparent imminent threat to him).

But as usual, some people think Guns Used By Friends Are Good, Guns Used By Enemies Are Bad.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Could never tell if she's twacked out on a lot of adderall or some meth. Probably splitting hairs.

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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Loved Jon Stewart this week

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The GOP = scared white snowflakes

[-] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

She's holding her gun in such a weird way

[-] nomadman@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

They both are. It's clear they have never fired a weapon before. They might shoot at someone, but they're not hitting anything unless by accident. Which is the likely outcome for these chuckleheads.

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[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Kyle rittenhouse

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

They look like the inept culprits of a murder mystery right after they've been discovered and about to make a getaway.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

True, that is actually brandishing, but I don't think anybody really thought that helping a woman off of the ground while never touching or showing off your gun is brandishing.

For conservatives, words don't have meanings anymore. If a word sounds like it might have a negative connotation, then it is a word that they use to describe any opposition. They don't need to bother waiting to see what actually happened. The important thing for conservatives is to say the bad-sounding word first. Nobody has ever held them to account for lying.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

For conservatives, words don’t have meanings anymore.

They never really did, I think what allowed them to start breaking through out of that prison of social pressure was when we all stopped socializing and connecting. They started finding they could get a form of social support in atomized realms, while the rest of us just said "let them stay over there, we can't ban them all, at least there they're contained."

I really want to ask them back in those early days when they were debating banning forums and subreddits related to sexism and racism, if they think "containment" is different from "empowerment" now.

[-] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago
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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Those are the kind of gun owners we don't need.

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