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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by xadhominemx on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:53PM (#28556599)
Agreed with all of the above, but it addition, isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government? They are mostly right wing, and the right wing in the US increasingly leans authoritarian.
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by philwelch on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:45PM (#28557319)
This is an oversimplification to some degree, but even if we take this for the sake of argument, isn’t the obvious solution to stop treating gun ownership as a right wing issue?
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by xadhominemx on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:11PM (#28557676)
Who should stop treating gun ownership as a right wing issue? Left wing people? Most left wing people think there should be fewer guns.
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by philwelch on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:34PM (#28557974)
Right; I don’t think the center-left should voluntarily disarm itself. (Socialists are surprisingly pro-gun; they have a saying that if you go far enough to the left, you get your guns back.)
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by newfriend on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:20PM (#28557789)
Which authoritarian policies are the right wing in the US increasingly leaning towards again?

As far as I can tell, most "right wing" individuals mostly want liberty from government interfering in their lives.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by xadhominemx on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:01PM (#28558279)
Meaning they want single party rule and don’t care for democracy
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by rpmisms on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:07PM (#28557618)
> isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government?

That's hilarious. Sure, there's the Republican party, but also a massive Libertarian sentiment here, and Libertarians love guns.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by xadhominemx on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:12PM (#28557692)
Libertarians are not by any measure a massive segment of the population.
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by rpmisms on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:31PM (#28558628)
Libertarians aren't, but libertarians are.
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by betwixthewires on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:13PM (#28559925)
> ...isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government?

No, it isn't.

> They are mostly right wing, and the right wing in the US increasingly leans authoritarian.

No, it doesn't.

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