There are no good Republicans.

None. Zip Zilch Zero None Of Them Not A Single Pleasant Person.

They are a revolting corrupt embezzlement ring with literally zero redeeming qualities

Fuck Trump and his spineless boot licking thugs and Fuck Massie and his rose-tinted followers.

Release the Epstein files transparency proposition WITHOUT that gun obsessed bigoted hack’s contribution or prosperity.

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    As a former gun nut, if those are legit fully automatic weapons that are registered, they are holding around $100K-275k in firearms. The tommy gun alone is around $25k+. That M60 is about $60-150k and M16’s are around $18-25k each. Flashing your insecurity as well as your wealth to your constituents is a…choice.

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        True, and most gun people are too stupid to learn about the NFA world and how expensive legal fully automatic firearms are, so they wouldn’t know the flex this picture actually is and would just say “YEAHHHHH, 'MERICA!!” and vote for him again while their family struggles to afford insurance.

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    Are they posing before they are going to do a family school shooting or something? This looks like a photo of white Al Qaida.

    I don’t understand why they would do this. Like, posing for a Christmas photo, sure. But add murder weapons to it? What is the message? “We’re going to kill Christmas”, or “baby Jesus you’re going to get lead” or something? “Santa is flying through the air with his raindeers and it’s open hunting season” or “Christmas time is the purge time, we’re going on a murder spree”. The last one is the one I got from this photo the most.

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    Whether you like guns or not, making them your entire personality is so cringe.

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        Eh, I grew up doing shooting competitions as a kid. My grandfather was a semi-famous trick shooter back when that was a thing, so it was something I grew up doing.

        I hunt too, meat prices are insane right now and a few deer go a long way when frozen or otherwise preserved right, I don’t mind having to butcher and dress it myself. I’m not gonna stop eating meat in this lifetime, them animals are way way too tasty.

        I like guns, but this photo is cringe to me too. I’m a Fudd in the gun community. Revolvers, lever-action repeaters, and shotguns are all I mess with, and I’d be more than comfortable banning all high capacity guns.

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        Depends on where you live, how you grew up, and your hobbies.

        I realize it’s a foreign concept to some who grew up in an urban/metropolitan area and are otherwise surrounded by concrete, buildings and lots of people.

        I grew up with 3000 acres of woods behind my house. Didn’t own them but had unrestricted access. I like guns but despise people like the one in this image.

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      Honestly, you can say that about most things. If you make your identity any one thing it’s cringe. Go experience the world and open your interests to a diverse set.

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        Making “exploring the world” your thing is so cringe. All those insta and tinder profiles with the same travel photos. Fuck off.

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          I feel like if I explored the world the only photos you’d have of it are random ass birds, weird roadkill, and probably the inside of some Soviet bunker or some shit. I went to the grand canyon some years ago and the only video I took was of a goat at the flintstones thing and a squirrel tweaking out on the side of the cliff.

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            I did explore the world. This included war zones. I didn’t feel like making a selfie with a dead baby on the side of the road, to post it on my tinder profile with the text “I love traveling”. Or with someone’s head split open by a sniper shot, with the text “I guess we’ll eat shoarma tonight #localstreetfood”.

            “I love exploring the world” basically means “I love to make selfie photo’s at tourist attractions to show off I make more money than you, while at the same time not giving a shit about the culture, the people, the history, the country I visit because those poor people are ewww”

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        But other things might not be exclusively used for killing living beings. In the case of the weapons in that image, primarily humans.

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          Yes, but I don’t think that changes the cringe aspect. It changes the unhinged potentially dangerous aspect though.

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            Still killing living beings, but of the animal variety for food. Or, as a hobby to enjoy at the range. That’s what mine are for.

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              If the first round doesn’t stop the deer the rest of the clip will I suppose.

              Bonus: You don’t have to grind the meat up after you dress it.

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                  It’s a legit problem in some southern states. The feral hog population is destroying crops. I know someone that ranches goats and he says he carries an AR15 with 300BLK with him when he checks on his goats. He also said the hogs have killed enough of his goats that he hasn’t made any profit in them in the past couple years. It’s a very specific use case, but a real one.

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                  I once met a guy who hunted geese with a slingshot. That was impressive skill, not impressively stupid.

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    He’s still the only politician that took action to get rid of AIPAC. I hate most if what he does, but if everyone agrees with something and it still doesn’t pass, people got bought and democracy is a farce.

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    If a politician made a post like this in any other country they’d be lucky to just be laughed out of government.

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    Any Republican who hasn’t flipped to Democrat, Independent or started voting 100% against their party isn’t to be trusted.

    So we can’t trust any of them that I’m aware of.

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    About $100k of iron in that pic (assuming the 60/uzi/Thompson are all fully functional and not just replica/semi auto.

    I have mine because they have theirs.

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        I wasn’t going to share the story because I felt it too dark. But a coworker years ago told me the first people he would kill in the “shit hits the fan” scenario is his neighbors because they would be the first to ask for help/target him.

        The fact that a single nut job is out there thinking this was enough to adjust my stance on owning fire arms.

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        Well you may want to look up how gun control came to be a talking point, and why Fred Hampton was viewed as such a threat, he was murdered in his bed, next to his pregnant, sleeping wife (hint: youth breakfast and exercise program).

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        Gun manufacturers are a part of society, and a very rich part.

        The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides. More than the top six suppliers combined (including China and Russia).

        Every state in the union is part of the arms industry. Even Hawaii.

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          The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides.

          Most of the guns used in crimes in Canada and Mexicr were smuggled in from the USA.

          A truly moral society wouldn’t be providing the weapons that criminals demand.

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      Go far enough left and keep your guns. Also, blessing Chairman Fred and Comrade Newton.

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      Honestly, that’s much lower than I expected. Knowing very little about firearm costs (haven’t shot anything since college), I would have guessed probably double that.

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        Guns are a lot cheaper than you’d expect. An ar-15 is like $500 for a simple build. Most handguns are similar. The ones here are only expensive because they’re machine guns

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    Little girl’s got no muzzle control, she’s about to dome her mama with a negligent discharge.

    Santa, forget the ammo. Bring basic weapons handling/safety manuals

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    A gun is just a tool. That family looks scary because the tool they love has only one purpose… To kill. If you’re bad at it you can scare or mame. To not be bad at it you have to practice.

    But imagine the same picture with the family holding butchering knives, or hammers, or a drill or a broom or guitars. Any of those objects are fine. But the message really changes when everyone is holding the tool like they’re ready to use it. I use my mind a lot. In my family pictures we hold up our minds.

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    Why do these… people feel the need to hold guns?

    Dicks/tits too small?

    I mean, I own guns and enjoy shooting, but unless I’m using them at the range or cleaning them, they stay locked up in the gun safe.

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    If you have an R after your name, I assume you’re a pedophile. Obviously you are ok with child rape to continue to be in the Regressive Party (aka the Pedo Party)…