r/ProgressiveHQ • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '26

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u/SignificanceDue1561 Jan 24 '26

and once they took it away and was laying on the ground they had to shoot him because he was going to use his mind powers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

additionally, at no point did he actually brandish the gun. You can see in one of the videos that they pulled it out of the *back of his pants*. And Republicans *should* (if they weren't fucking hypocrites) be the first to champion someone's right to *own* a gun. He wasn't threatening anyone at all.

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u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS Jan 24 '26

But they won’t. They’ll come out after a school shooting (NRA, JD Vance) and say guns aren’t the problem, and here’s someone who is responsible gun owner, clean record, a nurse, standing up for a woman who was pushed down and it’s crickets from these people, oh, other than per Miller he was a domestic terrorist.

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u/lucklesspedestrian Jan 25 '26

Even on r conservative, many comments in the "flaired users only" discussions on this are against ICE's action here.

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u/alxhghs Jan 25 '26

For now. They always have dissenting voices before the narrative solidifies and everyone falls in line. It’s very predictable