My dad and my two brothers all are/were hunters. And if you need an AR-15 to kill a deer, you're either the worst hunter in existence...
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James Gagliano is on CNN now saying the shooter had every right to have the weapon bc some people hunt. I grew up in a family of hunters.https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/927325615451262976 …
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Or you're just a moron. So let's not pretend that people have AR-15s because they hunt. I also grew up in hardcore gun country.
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Where people amass insane arsenals for dumb reasons. Some genuine paranoia about self-defense, but a lot of needing to feel powerful
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in a show of force kind of way. (Oh, you don't respect me? If I point this gun in your face, do you respect me now?)
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And the bigger, the badder the gun, the more powerful the owner feels. But it also has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment.
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With some notable exceptions, most gun owners are not genuinely convinced that they need a militia to address potential govt encroachment
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(Especially with Trump in office and a GOP-controlled Congress. Who would be encroaching, exactly?)
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It's not even remotely about that for most of the people who buy these extreme weapons.
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In fact, if you told them they could ONLY deploy those weapons in a case where a hostile govt actually comes after them, they'd be outraged.
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That would mean they couldn't recreationally shoot them for fun, brandish them to impress friends, hoard them as a display of power.
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And that would be unacceptable because again, it isn't actually about the 2nd Amendment.
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It never is. This is also why rich guys like the Trump boys go to Africa and shoot big guns at big animals, launch RPGs for fun on ranges.
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It has nothing to do with responsible use of guns. It's dumb raw chest-beating assertion of power by people who've done nothing to earn it
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