• mhague@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was going to say that “stand your ground” laws shouldn’t exist when so many people are terrified of shadows.

    But that’s it isn’t it? If they’re terrified of shadows then a gun and a power fantasy is the answer.

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      This isn’t even stand your ground or castle doctrine or anything. The homeowner wasn’t even home and they were outside the front gate when shot. That’s the craziest part to me, absolutely no one was in danger until the dude showed up.

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      By the same government encouraging their armament. “Give them guns” and also “they’re coming for YOU so be afraid!”

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          And yet the GOP (mostly) either don’t give a fuck, have no moral courage, or are bought and paid for by the firearm industry. And then they use fear to keep their base glued to their propaganda machine and voting them into power on a loop.

          Meanwhile the DNC keep trying to compromise as if both sides were still using the same playbook (which they ain’t) and have thus drifted so far to the right that they’re basically Republican lite. So much so that when progressives try to yank them back to their roots, the Republicrats resist and call the progressives “too extreme”.

          Gawd I hate this quagmire.

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            And yet the GOP (mostly) either don’t give a fuck, have no moral courage, or are bought and paid for by the firearm industry.

            D: all of the above