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    That is one of the states I live in. No I am not registering my assault rifles. I did move them out of state for now as I’m not there as often as I used to be. After the summer of love. I am not giving up my right to self defense. I watched people being beat in the streets and the buildings burned. The democrats have made it clear they are not against violence.

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      The democrats have made it clear they are not against violence.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/us-political-violence-justified-survey

      "One in three Republicans believe that “true American patriots” may have to resort to violence to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats – all representing increases since 2021. Almost one in three white evangelical Protestants believe that patriots may have to resort to political violence to save the country, markedly higher than any other religious group.

      Support for political violence jumps to even higher levels among Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump (46%); Americans who hold a favourable view of Trump (41%); Americans who believe in the so-called “replacement theory” (41%); Americans who affirm the core tenet of white Christian nationalism, that God intended America to be a new promised land for European Christians (39%)."

      You got it backwards.

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        Save the country. That’s the difference. The democrats just love violence as much as they loved owning people.

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          Save the country. That’s the difference.

          That’s what democrats say as well. But words are cheap.

          The democrats just love violence as much as they loved owning people.

          This just isn’t even close to true, and you know it.

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            Democrats don’t say that. They rioted over a man who attacked a police officer, a man who sexually assaulted a woman, and a guy who used fake money.

            They are the ones destroying the country with that shit.

            You’re correct. They love violence more than owning people. That’s why we had the civil war.

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              Democrats don’t say that.

              Yes they do.

              They rioted over a man who attacked a police officer, a man who sexually assaulted a woman, and a guy who used fake money.

              So in other words, you’ve completely failed to understand the reason behind the unrest that happened in the wake of that event.

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                Not but it appears you have. Democrats just like to use violence as a tool and don’t respect our republic.

                Michael brown attacked a police officer in his car. Democrats lied he was short with his hands up with evidence proved to be a lie but physical evidence and eye witnesses.

                Blake assaulted a woman then tried to kidnap his children.

                The documentary about Minneapolis shows the chauvin case was built on lies.

                Democrats just like lies and violence.

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      I notice you have mentioned the summer of love several times in your posts. I am curious about your experience, would you mind telling us a little bit about where and when you witnessed violence, and give a few details about how this pushed you to take self defence more seriously?

      As for the law, I don’t really see how a gun registry practically helps or protects anyone. It seems to me the budget for a gun registry office would be better spent on mental health and social support networks that can identify and help people before they become so hopless they start mass murdering people.

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        am curious about your experience, would you mind telling us a little bit about where and when you witnessed violence, and give a few details about how this pushed you to take self defence more seriously

        Sure. Watched a man dragged out of his car and almost beat to death trying to get into our condo building in Chicago.

        I watched building burning from my deck.

        I watched mobs destroy the train station, loop and west loop.

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          Fucking horrible man. Was that in 1967?

          Edit: thanks for sharing that. I wondered if it was not a good idea to ask you to relive old trauma. Just witnessing violence can have a long term effect on somebody and I’m sorry you had to carry that.

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              Ok. I see we are getting a little off topic here but you should know that when you say “summer of love” without context, that could be taken to mean 1967 when droves of hippies descended on San Francisco.

              Anyway again, I’m sorry you had to witness that. It is a shame that so much anger and violence erupted after the brutal murder of George Floyd by registered republican police thug Derek Chauvin. The world needs less violence, not more.

              Perhaps if more black folks had guns, then it would no longer be true that, according to the British Medical Journal,“Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than 3 times as high as in Whites.” Maybe then such riots could be a thing of the past.

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                Unarmed doesn’t mean they are not dangerous.

                Also you should watch the real evidence of the trial. I doubt it’d change your mind but I did post the link to it. The media lied to you.

                I agree the world needs less violence. Why I vote against democrats.

                I was in law enforcement and the military. I’ve never seen anything more violent than a democrat.

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                  Does anybody care that we are going ridiculously way off topic?

                  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-paradox-police-killings/

                  Thanks for posting this good read. This article makes a lot of sense.

                  " These statistics are consistent with excessive use of deadly force against Black people, due to a mathematical phenomenon called Simpson’s Paradox.

                  The key point is that not all encounters with police are equally deadly. In any given kind of encounter with the police, a Black person can be likelier to be killed than a white person even if the overall rate of deaths per encounter appears lower for Black people. This would happen because Black people have many more interactions with police in non-deadly situations — a dynamic exacerbated by racism. And all those extra encounters dilute the rate."

                  Again you didn’t read the article you posted. It agrees with the findings of JMA and contradicts your false claim. It seems reality disagrees with you again. I’m sorry. This must be difficult for you.

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                    You didn’t read the second article. The second article explains fully why the first article is wrong. It’s called opposing views. Something you struggle with since you like echo chambers