Spent seven years in Red Stick, "back in the day."

What's embarrassing is that I'm from New Orleans and spent a lot of time in Baton Rouge as a kid. I'm surprised I didn't write Alexandria while I was at it.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Wayne LaPierre

In Orlando, Dallas, and Baton Rouge there were good people with guns and that still didn't stop
the killings.

.... and he doesn't care about facts.

Dallas mayor and police chief stated that civilians open carrying guns made things worse in the chaos because police wasted resources when they didn't know who was the shooter or if there were more than one.

Also 2 of the police shootings were people who were not even charged with any crime and not touching their guns, but were shot and killed for being perceived as a dangerous threat after informing police they had guns.

first responders to incidents, first line of law enforcement, and they are at the community level. The regulations conservatives keep whining about are enforced by police.

The problem for the NRA is that the particular people taking up arms against the government don't match the demographic to whom they've been hard-selling their bullshit all these years.

Non-white? Targeting LE?

Figure how much fear (and righteousness) THAT generates? How many gun sales? How much RW support?

That the shooters usually end up dead is probably seen as a bonus.

that sent chills down the spines of the same reactionary, gun toting, privileged white males.

they were SO DISTURBED that the tables could be turned - again, more evidence of their COWARDICE

acting out their personal fantasies.

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"Seed Disturbances". You keep telling Americans that's why they get to carry semi-automatic long guns with an endless supply of ammunition, and eventually a couple of them are going to believe you.

Except that Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Malheur were paranoid fantasies, and systemic repression of Black Americans is all too real.

I've argued with a DU Gunner who calmly proposed following police to their homes and executing them as part of battling government tyranny. They are now on full ignore.

But the overall problem is that the right is going to eat this up. It is not helping our cause or the BLM for that matter

Yes, that was a fantasy.

Note the kid gloves applied to the Bundy Ranch stand off, and, comparatively, Malheur.

Which should surprise no one. The sniper in Dallas was booted from the BLMers long before he lived out his nutty NRA fantasy

The killer in Baton Rouge was a loony extremist who'd been talking about racial separatism for years. He too rejected the BLM movement.

They both were the sort of loner lunatics who go around having Rambo fantasies, imagining they are the "one good man with a gun" that the NRA and the 2nd Amendment fanatics are constantly talking about.

The NRA just sucks that right up.