Oh yeah?

This is true, but let’s not pretend that they won’t find another justification if you don’t have a gun.

Nah the NRA abandons you if you actually use a firearm to prevent domestic abuse. Especially if you’re non-white.

Again, I’m speaking to situations where violence is already going to happen going into the situation. Like it or not, there is a segment of our population who currently wants to commit acts of physical violence against minorities. There is no deescalation of that situation, except for showing the willingness to defend…

Just bought my son his first .22.

This is true, and it is situational.

Hello Vlad.

Or, and bear with me, you are in a place where you already face threats of violence, regardless of your possession of a weapon or not.

Well a gun can also be used as a deterrence against violence, by raising the risk for the other person involved and making them back down, or discouraging those who would otherwise do violence from doing so.

You had a good run, you’ll get your Splinter contrarian pension in the mail monthly and be eligible for the monthly magazine.

And this is why we need left leaning organizations that advocate for gun rights in a non-white supremacist manner, and support high level solutions to gun violence over low level policing.

Except that...racism does exist partly as a product of ignorance and misattributed class anger?

Vlad from Vladivostok, our favorite comment section friend.

Because...they’re still human beings who are going to die from treatable illnesses, all because they got duped into thinking the ACA was bad?

Who do you think comprises the 40-60% of Americans who don’t vote? Generally it’s the poor and working class, because they’re A) apathetic (and who can blame them, national politics tends to be lose - lose for them since the Dems began shifting right in the 1970s), B) are disenfranchised due to issues of residency or…

A) I hate to be that guy but “I met them” doesn’t stand up versus the stats (god I feel like Nate Silver now. I need a shower).

Max just give up, Vlad is better at this than you are.

Cool, now release the names of all the Wall Street bigwigs she’s met with.

You’ve fallen for Vlad’s trolling.

When you’re working 40-50 hours a week trying to keep your head above water, it’s not a personal failing to not be properly politically informed and fall for propaganda. Especially since the system is designed to make it difficult for you to do so.