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Don Jr: Buy AR-15s In Case Paragliders Swoop Into Your Home (crooksandliars.com)

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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 109 points 10 months ago

I'm sure everybody gets the reference, but Junior is referring to reports that Hamas used hang gliders or paragliders during their attack on Israel.

So, he's just trying to use a dog whistle here to try to remind Republicans that we should all be afraid of brown people. However, dog whistles are supposed to be subtle, so that the people who it isn't targeted for, won't even hear it. He's so inept at public speaking that he can't even do that correctly.

On a personal level, I live in Texas. I really don't want to have a gun, but if I did buy one, it wouldn't be out of fear of brown people paragliding into my house. It would be out of fear of white fascist Republicans breaking down my front door.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Less a dog whistle and more of a tuba in this case, I think.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Wolf tuba

[-] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 6 points 10 months ago

Chihuahua Sousaphone

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

if I did buy one, it wouldn't be out of fear of brown people paragliding into my house. It would be out of fear of white fascist Republicans breaking down my front door.

As a Portland resident, that's a logical fear:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/proud-boys-oath-keepers-antifa-portland-violence-spreading-1224762/

Members of any at risk group should consider being armed. The police aren't there to protect you and there have been court cases which ruled they have no obligation to do so.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525280/

"In a 7–2 opinion, the Supreme Court ruled that due process principles did not create a constitutional right to police protection, despite the existence of a court-issued restraining order."

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

One thing I know, every liberal gun owner is a marksman. They've trained with their firearms and know them fifty times better than a Conservative does.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Oh look, it's me! ;)

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

7.62-MM M14 with a walnut stock. Trained with it during my military days but I didn't take it on deployment. I was stuck with the M16A2 in Afghanistan and M4 carbine in Iraq.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I had someone not believe me when I told them they still issued M16s in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Wikipedia told me they switched to the M4 entirely!?!?"

Yeah, okay bud, just like they're going to be using nothing but the M5 in another decade.

Or two...

Or three.

I bet you could get issued a M1 under the right circumstances.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

People who don't know how deep military warehouses go. Wouldn't surprise me if there weren't some WWI field phones floating around somewhere.

[-] weirdwallace75@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Isn't the Army still issuing M1903s? With warehouses like that, they'll never fully modernize!

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Nice! Mine's a Henry in .45-70 Government. Good for most big game in North America. Marlin briefly had theirs rated for T-Rex as a cross promo for Jurassic World. LOL.

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

you are goddamn right

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Yes Don Jr is right that we should have guns generally, but more because of what his dad's cult is doing.

Don't ever believe that any gun control laws will disarm those guys. It's way too easy to hide guns and ammo, and there are hundreds of millions of them all over the country.

So it's best to have it and not need it, rather than needing it and not having it. Because they are going to have it anyway.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don’t ever believe that any gun control laws will disarm those guys.

Even if this is true, counterintuitively, gun control laws will still work. We've seen this exact thing in Australia. (Which admittedly is easier to do because it's an island)

What happens is that guns become more rare, and yes, only bad guys and cops have access to guns, however, because guns are rare, it's much harder even for bad guys to get more guns. Guns become much more valuable, and as they're valuable, bad guys will become reluctant to use them unless the reward is great. If you take a $1000 gun to rob $50 from a 7-11, and if you get caught, you're losing $950. You're way better off just using a knife or something, and then you can sell the gun.

So even if only bad guys have guns, guns are still used in fewer crimes. Everybody gets safer, little by little. Eventually, they're only going to use guns for crimes with huge payoffs. And they were going to do that, anyways, even if there weren't gun control laws.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Unless having it puts you at higher risk of suicide, in which case maybe don't have it.

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

You’re more likely to injury or kill yourself or family than an intruder, so there’s that too.

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[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

It would be out of fear of white fascist Republicans breaking down my front door.

Legitimate thing to fear. And what are you going to do, call the cops? You'll just have more of them.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

It would be out of fear of white fascist Republicans breaking down my front door.

Who would then execute you on sight. Even if you managed to shoot your way out, sooner or later they'll find you and kill you.

Guns don't work against state violence. By the time you need them, you've already lost.

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 10 months ago

As a Texan, a lot of the fascist republicans you run into day to day are not in government. Not federal, not state. Terrified irrational morons who only see through a veil of hate are a real concern.

They are in your trailer parks and rural areas. In Texas, it would take me less than an hour to go from downtown to rural. In fact, its a straight shot down the interstate.

Rifles won't stop a tank. Good luck hitting a bomber. The government, especially in the US, is too numerous and too well equipped. Jim Bob and his inbred son Rusty are much more of a concern and manageable with a rifle.

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 61 points 10 months ago

Look at his cute little "I-do-manual-labor" costume.

[-] cvozbosher@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

Borrowed it from his gardener

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Also being in front of a bunch of books, like he knows how to read.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Everything these people do and say is a performance, gun stuff included

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago

The man who shot a bunch of my coworkers had this exact attitude... He was buying guns and "high capacity" magazines because the government was going to be making them illegal. Kinda wish they had, what little it might have done.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Where did this happen, if you don't mind saying. Just would like to read up on the incident.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

It’s really sad that “guy shoots up office, kills coworkers with rifle” doesn’t really narrow anything down in the US.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

I'd rather not - sorry. This bit didn't really make it into the press though as it wasn't really part of his stated motive or the motive argued in court by the prosecution. But it was something he didn't exactly hide.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That's cool, don't share any information you are not comfortable with. Thank you for the reply.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Against an airborne target like hypothetical imaginary Hamas paragliders, I think a shotgun with a light choke would probably be a little more suitable.

I know! We can hire Dick Cheyney to stand guard for us. He's great at peppering things with birdshot.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I prefer Hollywood style flaming arrows!

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Your flaming arrows will be no match for my crack squad of trained attack pigeons.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Squad of crack-trained pigeons?

[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My attack hamsters will take over the situation.

[-] Kandorr@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Trained squad of crack pigeons?

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 10 months ago

When near year’s batch of once-in-100-years extreme weather events comes, you can shoot at the tornado. It won’t stop it, but it will give you a sense of power in your final moments.

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[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

What a complete fucking moron.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

We’re they all poisoned or something? Is there something in their drinking water that’s making every member of that family get dumber and dumber every day?

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

they've always been this way

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Please Jesus may the blinds be lifted from eyes of the underclasses, that they might no longer be grifted on.

The nice people are waiting with hugs.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Maybe stop calling poor people underclass, that would help I think. One thing I hate is liberal elitism, it bothers me as a left leaning poor person. I'm not an idiot cause I'm poor

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[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Paragliders are entering peoples homes? How big are their doors?

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Good luck getting out of the trees.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My house has a roof tho

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[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

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