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....
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That’s a good bird to eat. I only had it once.
Intelligent liberal?
There is such a creature?
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
gun stores have the right to refuse sale to anyone who they get bad vibes from.
Yep. When we run across these stories we should run them as high as we can up the Fake news flag pole and make them show proof of the things they claim. They love quoting groups like the SPLC that never has to show proof for their claims.
Yes to all the above....ignoring the fact it is the Left who is the one perpetrating this type of activity.
"...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....
In other words, it's a lie.
Yep. When we run across these stories we should run them as high as we can up the Fake news flagpole and make them show proof of the things they claim. They love quoting groups like the SPLC that never has to show proof for their claims.
Then, when our resident concern trolls post these bs fake news, they need to be treated the same way.
I call complete and total BS on that, too.
If it happened, they did it themselves.
[Clara, a 28-year-old nursing student, grew up in the Midwest, where "the folks that had guns were seen as hicks" or were just "culturally different", she says.]Well she must have grown up in a MidWest city, not the country because if you're rural Midwest and DON'T have a gun, you would be "culturally different".
This is both an example of how liberals lie and how the media lies by omission to support the narrative.
1. These things probably were a complete fabrication.
2. You are right that if they are true they are most likely self inflicted.
3. I think it would be a logical step for a curious reporter (even a liberal one) to want to get the names of those "friends" and interview them to really exploit or honestly disprove the story.
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