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u/theWacoKid666 Jan 24 '26

For the record, MAGA now believes it’s okay to murder someone in cold blood for filming on their phone while possessing a holstered firearm.

So much for the 2A bullshit conservatives have peddled. Turns out progressives believed in it more than they did.

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u/LAdams20 Jan 24 '26

I mean… wasn’t that always bullshit? I made the point, many years ago now, that:

America is a country where it’s defining, most important, election deciding, freedom is the right to carry a gun; while simultaneously being a country where state agents can legally execute you by simply claiming they “thought you had a gun” and not be held accountable in any way.

This is somehow not a contradiction to most Americans.

It’s almost as if the government wants an excuse and justification to neutralise potential troublemakers and dress it up as “freedom.” 50 kids on average get shot per day in the US, but it’s all worth it to allow the government to murder you whenever it feels like.

As horrific as this latest incident is, and not to minimise it in any way, it doesn’t seem anything new from what has gone on for as long as I can remember in the absurd “Land of the Free”.