• SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    The thing is, the guns are largely concentrated in the hands of people that make the left feel unsafe - and recent events have caused the left to feel even less safe about the situation. Now the liberals are arming up to balance out the equation a bit, and that’s driving a big part of the surge.

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      6 days ago

      thats basically how i understand it, yes.

      i dont feel comfortable conflating leftism with liberalism, but thats another can of semantic worms.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, sorry - I spent too many years hearing the right complain about libruls as if the term encompassed everything to their left, and I still haven’t completely untangled that knot in my brain.