Why?

  1. we blow up tons of shit anyway

  2. we need to show fascists they don’t own the monopoly on violence

  3. Look up operation blazing sword- LGBTQ and BIPOC folks need to arm themselves these days. It doesn’t necessarily mean owning a firearm in your home, but having knowledge of firearms and a local place to organize your community to defend against y’all-qaeda sounds like an okay idea nowadays

  4. I fired a pistol for the first time two days ago and honestly it was fun

    • meep_launcher@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      27 days ago

      Well we better get fucking started on making our own.

      Once again - operation blazing sword and the pink pistols are leftists, LGBTQ, and BIPOC defense focused groups.

      There is nothing that says we can’t create our own militia, in fact there is something that says we can called the 2nd amendment.

      • pissnshitworldwide@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        27 days ago

        I wish you luck but I think you’ll unfortunately find that most of the people willing to join a militia are exactly the type of people you don’t want in your militia. Dumb liabilities at best and violent psychos at worst.

            • meep_launcher@sh.itjust.worksOP
              1·
              9 days ago

              I guess I wish we had a Swiss model of gun ownership. Everyone is mandated to have a firearm, but they are all kept in local safehouses. That said the purpose for that is to keep them neutral in war rather than have a force that can fight their own government.

              I would like to see a balance of not crazy gun nuts owning guns, and especially when I get worried about a civil war, I would like to know when the proud boys march into my community to shoot us that we could shoot back.

              At some point, picket signs just don’t match an AR-15.

    • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
      4·
      26 days ago

      I fired a pistol for the first time two days ago

      This speaks volumes about this whole post.

      There are all sorts of organizations that teach firearm safety and proper gun handling. No need to “join a militia” when you could just look at local gun clubs and shooting ranges.

      For anyone in Minnesota the DNR has all sorts of options for training. If your LGBT+ or want to avoid running into right-wing types I’d suggest Sequeerity.