Yes, it has happened. That's because I base my opinions on reality, not hero fantasies and gun-lobby propaganda.
Want to know the difference between Matthew Shepard and all the LGBT people you're sacrificing to your cult? The people who killed Matthew Shepard didn't get away with it.
They absolutely do not.
Off you go then. Shoot some people with your cool guns. Or is it only other people who are supposed to throw their lives away for your bullshit rhetoric?
Always the same bullshit pro-gun comments pushing minorities to buy guns, but never telling them who they're supposed to shoot and how it's supposed to help.
If just owning a gun stops this, why is it happening? Why is it happening more often in America compared to countries with stricter gun laws?
If those guns need to be used, who are we shooting and when? This senator? Police? Trump? The far-right would be thrilled. They could open fire on anybody wearing rainbows and claim "I feared for my life" because the second amendment does far more to enable scumbags and extremists than it does to save minorities.
They got your money. They don't care where you store them. They don't even care if they kill your daughter. They only oppose safe storage because they know the extra upfront cost will lose them sales.
Good people can't kill without shame.
Just look at it through the lens of "would this increase or decrease the profits of the gun lobby?" and everything falls into place.
I understand the sentiment, but I'm tired of settling for "good" when "significantly better" is just there.
They'll actually eagerly give up freedom -- especially other peoples -- to keep their penis extensions.
I'm convinced many 2A types are drawn to authoritarians because they'll give them an excuse to fire into crowds of people they disagree with.
They weren't shy about their murder fantasies during BLM, puffing their chests out and bragging what they'd do to "looters and rioters" while simultaneously trying to ensure their definition of "looters and rioters" included as many peaceful protesters as possible.
They also may have run the numbers and decided that social media teaches more kids to accept people regardless of race, gender, sexuality or neurotypicality than it trains to be far-right xenophobic dogshit.
I can't really think of any other reason they'd do this. They don't do anything unless it's in their self interest.
It's because they're lying.
I'm sure you know that the words that come out of their mouth are worthless because of actions like this but for some reason, millions of people politely accept it.
They're never going to admit out loud "We just use freedom of speech to shame people out of deplatforming far-right extremists, we don't actually believe in it" or "We know the second amendment will never be used to overthrow a tyrant and we fully intend to be tyrants. We support it because it brings in $16 million a year in bribes and gains us millions of supporters who will tolerate literally anything except domestic abusers not having guns".
Every abuser has an excuse and it's never "I just really enjoy abusing people".
Why wait? They could think about it right now, in all the places it's blatantly not true.