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Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD

13 hours ago

I don't see inconsistency between the two NRA statements. Your interpretation seems imaginative/unsupported.

Gun rights people understand that owning a gun comes with certain responsibilities. The accusation of "hypocrisy" seems to be based on a cartoon understanding of gun rights from people on the left. Find me a gun rights person who previously claimed that resisting arrest while armed is all fun and games.

https://policelawnews.substack.com/p/cbp-involved-alex-prett...

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mindslight  13 hours ago

Always being able to come up with some exception [0] doesn't mean that you're not being hypocritical, it just means that you've tricked yourself into being unable to see it. For another incident that resulted in a widespread display of hypocrisy, look at the public reactions to what happened when Kenneth Walker exercised his right to night time home defense - one of the basic scenarios the NRA is always rallying around. But I'm sure you've settled on some coping excuse for that one as well.

The real thing you need to understand is that this fascist movement will always find some grounds to characterize its targets as worthy of othering. If (when) you get tripped up by it, no amount of conforming or having supported it is going to redeem you in the mind of the mob. Rather it's going to be people just like yourself condemning you.

[0] this one seemingly based on an outright shameless lie of "resisting arrest"

  • 0xDEAFBEAD  12 hours ago

    I have no opinion on Kenneth Walker. I'm just annoyed by what I see on social media -- people claiming hypocrisy without any supporting evidence. The flip side of your "exception" point is that you have to actually understand what the person said, and what they believe, before you claim hypocrisy... something that lefty activists in the US largely have no interest in doing.

    • mindslight  12 hours ago

      > I'm just annoyed by what I see on social media -- people claiming hypocrisy

      Fixed that for you.

      (If you had made a concrete point, I would have sought to understand and address it. Instead you basically just did a wordy version of "nuh-uh")

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