Are you considering purchasing a gun?

Nothing worth bothering about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we37yX3zpKA

WHAT IS THIS 😭 pic.twitter.com/JueFatO892

— jess (@_joodlehead) August 10, 2020

The only acceptable open carry
https://i.imgur.com/ZdrcboR.jpg

haven't FPed in a while, but today is a new day

That was a pro-ranch post.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E25/TuszCgPU3ILm2jAj9nDyfzCE9lI=.gif

https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/02/28/192d47ed-163b-46e8-bc84-76174029f385/thumbnail/1240x866/a4aee7c845dcb8e456c21a1e5fa8c56e/ap-18059675312394.jpg

I was FPing the mess upthread, tbc

if I couldn’t accept getting called a stupid cunt every once in a while I wouldn’t be on ILX

Wtf xpost

what is happening

this is suicide weather tbf

You raise up your head and you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says, "It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?" and somebody else says, "Well, what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?"
But something is happening and you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?

horrid revive

ffs

if I couldn’t accept getting called a stupid cunt every once in a while I wouldn’t be on ILX

Bleedin' spellchecker, I meant to call you a stupid crüt.

Apologies to crüt, things can got a bit heated there.

Apologies to crüt, things can got a bit heated there.

I've always been quite fond of the archaic French verb 'enconner' and have only just realized that there is an exact English equivalent: to encunt.

See also: decunt, uncunt.

Can’t stop thinking about these words

Uh

we've got a live one

threadban ahoy

Now, you see this one-eyed midget shouting the word "Now"
And you say, "For what reason?" and he says, "How"
And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back, "You're a cow!
Give me some milk or else go home"
And you know something's happening but you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?

I’m just going to delete oder doch’s posts. If it happens again this thread will be locked.

xps it's all good Tom, sorry I was rude to you!

No worries. I blame the weather.

May you get a revolution out of it (not even joking btw).

absolutely wild to me that the punishment for bringing a loaded gun to an airport is a fine of “up to $4100”

sorry, “starting at”. point stands

Very good piece.

I spent months working on this story, so wanted to share again for those who may have missed it. Gun control advocates are missing a very important piece of modern gun culture: the future of firearms is in 3D. https://t.co/rI3a682KR0

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) August 21, 2020

are there any programs in California to provide lower-income people with guns, I can’t afford anything decent right now but i need to fulfill my duty as a real progressive

The new house I just bought has a fairly steeply terraced portion of backyard, and a weird, paranoid thought kept unwittingly entering my mind: "that's good, defensible high ground"

Are you considering purchasing a large pot of boiling oil?

highly recommend a home alone style distribution of self-defense/prank weapons

rewatching home alone recently, i couldn't help but imagine the police scene surrounding marv's body in the basement, killed by kevin with the iron falling through the laundry shoot, or maybe the body outline out on the stairwell, where a swooping paint can slammed marv directly in the head, again killed by kevin

Would the baby be charged as an adult for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVgqYZ1Xqk

My sister in Orange County just emailed me this:

I had to replace the filter in my air conditioning system, and its unusual size was hard to find--unless I ordered online, which I didn't want to do. Anyway, the right filter existed at Graingers off the 55 Freeway, so up I went. It was in a big building and because of Covid the doorways were taped off. At one doorway there was an "open" sign and another taped-up one said the wait to get in would be at least 45 minutes. At 3pm on a Wednesday? A guy came up and another with his girlfriend, and they started chitchatting and the subject went to guns and ammo. "No problem bringing ammo here from Idaho!" And after about 10 minutes it became clear they were here to buy ammo. I'm wondering what kind of store is this. After a while a store clerk came out and announced the wait time and I asked him if they indeed had air conditioner filters. "Oh that's next door; everybody comes here first!"

Well at the real Graingers they told me that the next door down was an ammo shop. Sure enough, it was called "Ammo Bros." They went on to say that there's usually a line all day outside, as well as a line that starts early in the morning before opening like a Black Friday sale. It seems that there are ammo shortages these days--like the new toilet paper. People are prepping for what's coming

Friend who works in a gun distributor warehouse has been working overtime for months now, even though they have no ammo the orders keep coming in for everything else.

People did it during the early Obama years as well - ammo prices doubled and never recovered. Now you've got COVID and a semi-likely Biden Presidency. Most aren't prepping for "what's coming" it's FOMO of just not being able to buy <whatever>.

They should have kept all that ammo from the last time they freaked out over nothing

Now you've got COVID

Better stock up on really tiny bullets.

Give me back

Give me back my COVID

You're going to have to pry this Covid from my cold, dead hands.

Better Covid than Red.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/how-liberal-gun-owners-see-2020-self-defense-is-self-care.html

For Yafeuh Balogun, the founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, an organization that teaches firearms skills to people of color as part of a commitment to self-defense and “militant culture,” guns are an integral part of his progressive ideology. His father was a marine and Vietnam veteran who was shot in the face in combat. Nevertheless, a formative part of Balogun’s childhood involved his dad teaching him and his siblings how to use guns safely.

Owning firearms, according to Balogun, is a way to have agency over communities that have been failed and brutalized by the police state. “Guns are tools to push toward self-determination,” he says. “In a utopian sense, we would hope for a world that doesn’t need weapons. We would hope that we can have a world where people can live in unity and harmony across the color spectrum. That’s not the case.” To quote a popular post in r/liberalgunowners, “Armed minorities are harder to oppress.”

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For Randy Miyan, the executive director of Liberal Gun Owners, gun ownership feels like an essential part of the human experience. “Liberals and leftists treat the 1960s as year zero,” he told me. “We have had a specialized relationship with specialized projectile weapons for 73,000 years. They’re archaeologically normative.” The mission of Liberal Gun Owners, which is registered as a 501(c)4, is to provide a community for gun-loving lefties as well as to look for solutions for gun violence beyond gun control. The earliest iteration of the group, Miyan explains, “was a shitshow of 4chan, 8chan bullshit. Whenever you do something online and don’t put a gate around it, every regressive asswipe and jerko on the internet is going to find you.” When Miyan finally earned the role of moderator, “the new sheriff was in town,” he says. He created a set of rules and protocols to turn the group into a healthy space for gun-toting lefties.

Miyan grew up in a working-class family of Democratic voters in Pittsburgh and now lives in North Carolina, but his affinity for guns is part of his spiritual questing. From age 21 to 31, Miyan studied to become a Buddhist monk, and though he ultimately chose to follow a more conventional path of getting married and having children, his time studying under Tibetan monks taught him the importance of compassion, love, and nonviolence. “There’s a notion out there that guns couldn’t possibly be an extension of compassion, that their very existence is regressive,” he explains. “You can be involved in self-defense and firearms and have that be an extension of love for your kin.”

There’s a notion out there that guns couldn’t possibly be an extension of compassion,

Yeah I have to cop to harboring that notion

”We have had a specialized relationship with specialized projectile weapons for 73,000 years. They’re archaeologically normative.”

lobsters have claws
humans have guns
it’s proven by science
QED, baby

Randy sounds fun