The NRA has been a front for political money laundering from other countries for decades. The whole gun and second amendment thing is part of the song and dance show for their idiot members. The real purpose is to allow foreign governments to make donations to politicians in the US.
The NRA long ago gave up their supposed role of supporting the Second Amendment and promoting firearms safety. They're now a refuge for angry white men who can't handle a world that no longer worships them, as is their (supposed) birthright.
Hard disagree, since the military will likely fight wars with either proxy wars or direct conventional wars with China or Russia or maybe Iran they will likely have lots of surplus military gear, and equipment like robots, thus they will likely want a place to either sell it or give it to police stations. (Case in point MRAPs from the middle eastern wars) You won't have a choice, they are coming.
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I don't understand why people who are pro-second amendment are supposed to be pro-cop. The reason that someone would have a gun is because they don't trust the state to be able to protect them. So why would someone be pro-police when by owning a gun they already demonstrated that they don't trust the police to effectively do their jobs?'What happened to you?': Gun owners' group leader criticized over Amir Locke support
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus released a statement criticizing MPD over the killing.
There have been a couple of conservative 2A supporters on Locke's side. They get yelled at by the rest of the conservative 2A enthusiasts for being anti-cop... in this case.
Well that's not always explicitly true, but yes, as far as these people are concerned they're stuck between "the second amendment exists to stop the republic from becoming a tyranny!" and "police can't be wrong unless they wrong me!"
If the second amendment exists to stop the republic from becoming a tyranny, and it's not being used to stop the republic from becoming a tyranny, then clearly that means we don't live in a tyranny. That's just logic.
I'm amazed you haven't clocked the far more exceptional fact that there are political campaigns to defund the police.
There is a subsection of these pro-cops who aren't into law and order. They see the cops as extensions of their ideals. They keep those who need to be kept down, just as God intended.
There's perhaps not a direct relationship, but people who favour the 2nd amendment tend to be conservative, and conservatives place a higher value on social order and have a higher faith in authority - thus trust in the police force.
Because they expect the police to be their "enforcers", keeping "those people" "in their place" lest they rise up. "Leave me alone and go get those people; they're the problem!"
Accurate. I actually haven't seen concrete evidence that they broke into the right apartment. It'd be especially awkward if whoever they were actually looking for lived somewhere else.
