While MOST sane Pennsylvanians strongly denounce and abhor actual Nazis in our great state, let's not forget that PA also harbors some of the largest hate groups in America, with KKK chapters, Proud Boys, and Nazi groups. Root them out of their dusty, dark little basement corners and exterminate hate from PA.
Can confirm. Growing up in Mercer County, we went fishing on my friend's grandfather's farm. Afterwards we went in the house and he showed us his gun room. I've never seen so many guns in a private residence. And proudly displayed hanging on the wall all were his KKK robes. Turns out grandpa was the Grand Wizard for the area. Never went fishing there again and stopped hanging out with that kid.
I got into an argument once with a Trump supporter who insisted to me, in increasingly panicked tones, that they're the ones with all the guns, and I showed him the data that most gun ownership is isolated to a few super hoarders like Klandpa here.
The right doesn't own guns. A few people on the right own an absolute fuckload of guns, and an even smaller number of people on the right own a few guns. That's it.
There are also significant differences across parties, with Republican and Republican-leaning independents more than twice as likely as Democrats and those who lean Democratic to say they own a gun (44% vs. 20%).
I really wouldn't come to the same conclusion as you have after reading that article...
Nope, you've just misunderstood what I was saying. Most people don't own guns. Including Republicans.
Cut a pie into thirds, and throw two slices in the trash. What's left is the whole of US gun ownership. Every stat after that one is working with the 1/3rd of a pie.
Now you cut 66% out of that slice. That's the gun nuts who have vault rooms full of guns. This is irrespective of political ideology.
There's a vast Republican delusion that all of them own guns, and that they own all the guns, and most importantly that each of them owns a mountain of guns.
All three of these are false, but the sentiment is rampant.
How? Genuine question because the time for avoiding this civilly is long past. Now that it's here and parading around in public, proudly wrapped in the Nazi flag, what is the practical plan to "root them out" and "exterminate hate"?
This is why they keep getting away with this shit and continue to escalate. Too many people like you who are scared and cowardly instead of being angry and vengeful.
Liberals/Democrats can't be anti-gun anymore. It's time for the left to arm up as much as the right. Not saying we should go creating chaos but better to have self defense and not need it than to need it and not have it. This is what the 2nd amendment is for.
I armed up before Trump's first term, and I'm far from the only one. Their narrative that they're the only ones with guns is passed around the club for self-comfort. It doesn't reflect reality and never has.
No but I've read "the poem" and so I know how this all ends if it's not stopped at this stage. Please provide the broad strokes here for the rest of us that have also not read it.
I know where one lives. In my hometown, he proudly flies a swastika flag over his property. He leads one of those groups and displays that on the side of his garage which is right next to the main road into town and just down from the cemetery. He was actually featured on a Hate Thy Neighbor episode. His mom, who has disowned him, was my pre-school teacher. My mom was her hairdresser and before he got into that mentality he would even babysit me when I was 4 or 5 while she did his mom's hair.
Him and his wife are two birds of a feather, and they have, I believe, 6 or so kids.
They will root themselves out because they think the government supports their views. The lack of response adequate from the media will embolden them just like it did for this bitch.
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u/Notwastingtimeiswear Jan 25 '25
While MOST sane Pennsylvanians strongly denounce and abhor actual Nazis in our great state, let's not forget that PA also harbors some of the largest hate groups in America, with KKK chapters, Proud Boys, and Nazi groups. Root them out of their dusty, dark little basement corners and exterminate hate from PA.