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David S. Moore @dsm1132.bsky.social

Does anyone remember the absolute terror that the Black Panthers caused when they called for black citizens to arm themselves? Weapons for me but not for thee.

aug 27, 2025, 11:26 pm • 122 4

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Martha Elizabeth @mepowers.bsky.social

Sure do. NRA did NOT defend them. Oh, they were just too scary 🫣 😱 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 www.history.com/articles/bla...

aug 28, 2025, 3:06 am • 8 0 • view
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meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social

Well that’s because white people (mostly men) have all constitutional rights while non whites only have those constitutional rights that white people decide to give them on a case-by-case basis.

aug 28, 2025, 2:40 am • 50 2 • view
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Jane Why @janeseewhy.bsky.social

Because the only kind of rights these people can imagine are property rights, and to them white men are property owners and everyone else is property.

aug 28, 2025, 7:33 am • 15 2 • view
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tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social

Wow Too accurate.

aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Somewhere in Wisconsin @richardson8.bsky.social

This is what got Reagan to enact gun control in California...

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aug 28, 2025, 5:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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tehswordninja🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @tehswordninja.bsky.social

This is why I am explicitly pro 2A. 2A for all means 2A for all. I am always going to be suspicious of those who wish to disarm minorities in a time like that of which we are going through.

aug 28, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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PersianX6 @persianx6.bsky.social

Not coincidentally, the Panthers call for arming black people as cop watchers resulted in the first, and only, successful push for gun control laws the country has ever had. It's been a slow roll of repealing laws since the 1990s, to the point where new laws are always killed by the Supreme Court.

aug 28, 2025, 4:03 am • 6 0 • view
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DIGITALMB @digitalmb.bsky.social

The only time Reagan called for gun control

aug 28, 2025, 3:54 am • 3 0 • view