Political Memes

There should be extra concern by now that Trump wants to "recruit external people to assist law enforcement" ...
Effectually he's raising his own separate militia so he can put them in action anywhere he wants and not be limited by the law where the Military/National Guard can not be used on American soil.

I used to oppose private weapon ownership over the time i have come to see that it is indeed an important tool to defend against totalitarian takeovers.

It is by no means a sufficient tool by itself, and people can manage to overcome a totalitarian government without in some historical examples, but often this meant a lot of bloodshed and ultimately gaining weapons through overrunning police/military sites or defecting army units.

Don't wanna be a conspiracy theorist, wouldn't it be a genious idea to split the oligarchy party into seemingly two distinct parties, with one side arming racist hillbillies and using propaganda to control them, the other disarming minorities and anyone left-of-center. Gun control is propaganda.

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary"

-Karl Marx

What’s safe ownership and how can Democrats advance it legislatively?

I've gotten to this point too. One thing that frustrates me to no end is the liberal commentators I hear "pointing" to things. Admitting that fascist policies are taking over. Admitting we don't have any rights anymore.

But none of them have the balls to actually say what the only means of resistance is now.

Hell, they don't have to even say it directly. But they should be screaming about what DOESN'T work.

The time for non violent protests and voting are at an end in terms of their effectiveness. The purpose of non violent protests and supporting left wing candidates now is not hoping those will "bring us back". We are not going back peacefully. The purpose of them is to bring about organization and class conciseness.

Maybe it's what "libs" need to hear to try to get them out doing something. Maybe they aren't ready for reality. But I just don't think we can afford people thinking that the system that existed before can be restored. And it shouldn't be restored. It's the system that got us here.

Faux News: "Terrorist with mental issues shot dead in their home after pointing weapon at officers."

Accidental drowning is one of the main causes of death for children.

• More children ages 1-4 die from drowning than any other cause of death.
• Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 5-14.
• Every year in the United States there are over 4,000 unintentional drowning deaths. (An average of 4,345 unintentional drowning deaths occurred each year from 2018–2021)

• chatgpt (seriously why)
• dolphin rape
• being a billionaire with a submarine
• being a ceo
• falls
• falling boulders (I know of at least one that happened.)
• tripping over your oxygen cable.

But guns.... are bad.

So your mind is changed now, right?

I don't know about lifted pickups in general, but the NHTSA recorded that there were 39,345 traffic fatalities in the US in 2024. So OP's chart is missing a few lines.

• Traffic Deaths: 39,345 (in 2024)
• Killed By Police: 1,365 (recorded in 2024)
• Medical Malpractice Deaths: 250,000 (estimated annual)
• Preventable Deaths due to Illness: 44,000 (lowerbound annual estimate)
• Malnutrition Deaths: 6,762 (in 2022)

So, yeah. Our politicians, capitalist overlords, and a fucked up for-profit medical system are killing us all either by inches or just outright, at the rate of a combined hundreds of thousands per year. But ermahgerd, gunz!!!

Yeah. And they probably view guns as a way of protecting children, too.

I see a lot of posts that just completely don't understand the conservative mindset at all, and imagine that explaining things to them like one would explain things to a leftist is going to work. There's just too much inferential distance for memes like this. Sigh :/

It's an extremely round number for a post with no attributed source.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens

I don't know 2024 rates but in 2022 it was about 7 per day.

What makes us blind to these numbers is that black children are 18 times more likely to be a victim of gun violence. Inner-city gang violence and relics of segregation are still with us, and the media doesn't report it as an issue because it's just "expected" that there are black kids shooting each other in cities. That way we don't have to do anything.

I mean, who else is gonna fill our for-profit prisons? Gotta have a hopeless segment of the population!

Lack of access to proper mental health care: too many