They need to get people to believe that the security theater is working to protect them (it doesn't), otherwise they might start to question why it's there in the first place. Hint: it's not to protect the public from terrorists.
That specifically is a valid concern for training ammunition where massive quantities end up being fired into relatively small firing ranges over the years, making the land more or less permanently contaminated with heavy metals and toxic residues from explosives. I doubt ammo for the "real world" will have the same requirements.
TPUSA is running the show, not Rittenhouse. They recruited him like an intelligence asset by showering him with praise and "favors" in a time where he was (deservedly) receiving national ire.
People need to understand that the American right has a pervasive violent ideation. His actions are repulsive to you, but they are normal, necessary, and a sign of strength to the gun-owning right. Many, many Americans love what he did.
I could see an armed sit-in in response to a Trump property being seized by the courts, a la Bundy Ranch. They've already been spinning this case as baseless partisan suppression of Trump and we know they will stoop to violence if things don't go their way.
Then it becomes an issue of intent, and how someone looking into you might interpret your intent. You might end up legally in the right but still end up harassed, jailed, and/or put on trial with all the costs that entails in the meantime.
If you're underwater financially or you're clearing out an estate sale, its a legal avenue, but I wouldn't make a habit of selling self-made guns.
He probably means police trying to make the arrest deliberately escalating the situation to violence, so they have an excuse to murder the suspect in a hail of gunfire. Standard procedure stuff.
Nobody today is selling a 9 year old car for $900 or the inflation equivalent unless it was turned into a cube at the scrap yard.
Cars are on average more expensive today, new or used. Gas is more expensive, and it's likely more expensive to insure a young driver, which has always been expensive.
If they choose "don't drive" over "pour much of what little money I have into propping up a falling apart beater," that's still a choice. Why rag on them for it?
Nazi race theory changed multiple times throughout the war depending on which way the wind was blowing. It's a feature, not a bug.
Right now white supremacy is a somewhat disparate ideology, so they can't be too picky about who is and isn't white. That comes after they seize power and make headway in driving out or killing off the targeted opposition.
Their approval is through the floor and this is a violent country by 1st world standards. If they went on predictable public transit schedules every day they would literally start getting killed by the public.
It's only going to get worse. I would suggest arming yourself and becoming proficient for your own self defense if you are comfortable doing so. No, lax gun ownership is not something a civilized country does, but this is not a civilized country.
I agree, but its not something to laugh off. If Roe v wade being canned taught us anything, it is that conservatives are always planning something worse than what they are telling people.
Right fucking here, they are telling people that they are going to criminalize pornography, full stop. That they are going to arrest and jail people even remotely involved in the porn industry, full stop. Imagine what they actually want to do.
"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.[20]"
— "A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
What's scary is that we have grown ass people who believe in the power of invoking the names of evil demons and devils, and that these people vote and make other important decisions based on those beliefs.
The political and military leadership of the Confederacy should have been executed, the statehood of traitor states should have been stripped, and the whole region placed under martial law with military governors appointed. That's how Reconstruction should have went. I don't think there was ever the will to do that to "fellow Americans" though. Especially on behalf of people that, at the time, were still largely considered "less than," even in the Union.
It is the second one 100%. The ideal default for these states, and probably most people on Lemmy is "no non-professional should be empowered to carry a loaded gun, period." Since that became untenable after the Bruen decision, they came up with this play to run interference. They're probably hoping for a reversal at the Supreme Court in the long term so they can go back to denying applications and likely scrapping ones they issued.
My take is that it's a joke of "what anarchists think they do" as the top comic vs "what anarchists actually do" as the dilapidated trap house.
I'm not an anarchist but something tells me that going to Lemmy to shit on anarchists wouldn't be well-received.