Posted on 12/20/2016 2:08:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs - and even start preparing for the collapse of society.
"I really didn't expect to be thinking about purchasing a gun. It was something that my father did and I rolled my eyes at him."
Clara, a 28-year-old nursing student, grew up in the Mid-West, where "the folks that had guns were seen as hicks" or were just "culturally different", she says.
But since the election of Donald Trump in November she has started going to a gun range for the first time and is shopping around for a semi-automatic pistol.
"It's been seeing the way that Trump's election has mobilised a lot of the far right and given them hope," she says, citing a rise in reports of hate crimes and neo-Nazi activity.
As a transgender woman, she does not fear for her personal safety in the Californian city where she now lives but she says she knows people in rural areas "who woke up and found a bunch of swastikas and words like 'faggot' and 'trannie' scrawled all over their building".
She foresees a wide-ranging struggle between the Trump administration and the left over issues such as immigration and racial politics....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The Leftists’ Unicorns have come home to roost.
#fakenews. ROTFL! This Clara guy has a screw loose.
...when poets buy guns, tourist season is over.............
- Walter R. Mead.
Nothing more dangerous than a scared Liberal with a gun.
I don’t really care why they become gun owners, as long as they do.
One, by the simple fact the gun does not magically kill people they will discover that the left has lied about guns. This puts them on a path to discover other lies.
Second, their irrational fear of Trump will encourage them to desire a weaker, less central, government. This also is a good thing as government is innately inefficient and not conservative.
Pffttt!!!
Many of them are becoming convinced that we as conservatives are now “empowered” by Trump to the point that we will feel free to “hunt them down” without fear of consequences.
The MSM is doing their best to convince the Left that we are bloodthirsty monsters that want to eradicate them as soon as Trump takes office.
As for me...if they are silent as the grave and don’t publicly try to shove their lifestyle down my throat...or my family’s. ..they can practice their perversion as they wish.
Fine, now once they are used to having their guns around and liking it, they will not want anyone taking them away.
They will have to vote against the lefty who wants to grab them.
Even if this story is true, I don’t see this going too far. A true blue snowflake lefty is the emotional/irrational type that fears guns.
Those lefties wanting guns already have them and are committing the various crimes that give the other lefties cause to have the nation disarmed.
My point is, the left will never be as heavily armed as the rest of us.
Fight Like a Girl? Watch This Little Girl Shoot Like a BOSS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8VmJRuBFY
Technical error, fixed.
Great! Owning a gun will turn lots of liberals into Conservatives.
You are making a point that red country is where the food is grown. But it goes way past that.
Lefty-land is typically a densely populated metropolitan area. They are completely dependent on the city water, sewer, elect grid, heat, as well as food and other necessities.
Cut the power grid and there goes the water & sewer. Block the highways and there goes the food and everything else.
This was something that became quite obvious in the Y2K era, where if the grid went down, so would large cities, while the self sufficient countryside would survive.
What good can a pistol do against a sniper rifle?
Good luck to Clara the he/she/it trying to buy a firearm in The People’s Republic of Cali-friggin’-fornia after January 1st.
Bullshit. He's a mentally ill, possibly mutilated man who suffers from delusions and is paranoid. I thought the leftists didn't want looneys to get guns.
Well. Dear Trannie; IF you’ve got a gun for goodness sake,
by all means GO to the shooting range and get to where you
can at least aim at and hit the broad side of a derned barn!
Although, you’re more likely to be fatally shot by an irate
lover who’s mad because they want to play the part of the
“woman” rather than by a TRUMP voter. :o)
I don’t go there.
Well—There was that tragic boating accident several years ago . . .
WHAT?
You think "Clara" needs more than that Ruger .22 she's sportin' for the bbc photo op?
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