Hi yes hello the right wingers in our small town have threatened us with violence because we're trans. Wherever they learn that these trannies can shoot back they suddenly get very quiet.

This thread is a remarkable advertisement to your stunning ignorance, I'd be embarrassed. https://twitter.com/LeftyScumbag/status/1350329302840066049
The fascists absolutely want to take guns from minorites. In this country in most states, a white person with a gun is practically invisible, but a minority with a gun is seen as a threat. The fascists know this and exploit it at every turn. https://twitter.com/LeftyScumbag/status/1350330947334356992?s=19
Less "stop telling us what to do" and more "bragging about your ignorance of the history of racism/bigotry and how it intersects with gun ownership in America is pretty cringe" https://twitter.com/LeftyScumbag/status/1350331945205436423?s=19
The rest of the thread is just as embarrassing but I have less to say on it, in part because the guns at our ranch will likely never be used outside of target practice and the occasional coyote. Their presence is what keeps fascists, who are largely cowards, away.
Oh and one more thing: I personally can't use guns, for a number of reasons but the biggest one is severe phonophobia (fear of loud sounds).

So despite the convenient box you're desperate to put me in, no I'm not itching to shoot people. Still protected by guns on this ranch.
Fascists dream of murdering minorites. They cannot wait to kill us with impunity.

Antifa in my experience does not dream of murdering fascists... unless they have to to protect their community.

All laws disproportionately affect minorites.

Do the math.
I cannot overstate how much I wish this wasn't a country with more guns than people, most of them owned by people who want to murder BIPOC and queer people.

I also wish nuclear bombs hadn't been invented either.

Pretending the answer is easy doesn't help tho
It irks the hell out of me that, intentionally or not, this person is basically saying to me, a queer person whose entire queer family has been threatened with violence, "Oh settle down, you're not in any real danger."

Excuse me?
There's a reason people respond angrily to this attitude, buddy, and they're not the ones being irrational or ignorant in this equation.
How much you wanna bet this is a cishet white guy?
I should've said "a cishet white person with a gun" in the second tweet of the thread instead of "a white person with a gun"

I understand that as a white queer person, I'm not in as much danger as any BIPOC, but fascists wanna kill me too. I need to be less sloppy with my words.
I know I should've ended this thread like 5 tweets ago but this person is presumably pro-gun control because people on the right with guns are very dangerous, yeah?

I agree! And those people have threatened me!
"Oh sure fascists are threats, but not to you, a leftist who wants to properly defend herself against them, because I feel way better dismissing your lived experience out of hand, you see. Makes things easier for me, someone unaffected by this."
The sheer shitting nerve.
I don't want anyone to have nuclear arms. It'd also be great if we could Thanos snap fascists into the phantom zone! There's all kinds of fantasies I wish could come true! If dragons were real that'd be pretty neat too tbh https://twitter.com/LeftyScumbag/status/1350812422798417921?s=19
What on earth makes you think any leftist is obsessed with "freedom and liberty"

If I'm "obsessed" with anything relevant to this discussion, it's not being killed by fascists, who again have threatened me and my family.
Really it's less your ignorance and more your stunning and unearned confidence that you could not possibly be wrong and your assumption that the leftist minorites telling you about our lived experiences are definitely wrong before you even got responses to the thread.
The massive fucking attitude of "Stupid-ass Americans" when you can't even address any of the points we're making is, and I cannot stress this enough, the height of irony.
If you cannot offer a solution that wouldn't in the interim disarm minorites while keeping cishet white bigots armed, then your only other option would be to insist without much evidence that said bigots are harmless/give exclusively empty threats, but if so... why disarm them?
Okay cool. You can *entertain* this.

Thank you for burying the lede so spectacularly, I guess we have little to argue about, though I'd mention that white queer leftists are also generally arming themselves for the right reasons. Close enough I guess. https://twitter.com/LeftyScumbag/status/1350634475609227271?s=19
I'm not going to give exact numbers, but it's not just white people who are armed on this ranch, and again, I can't use guns, so I guess despite this guy still being a tool my rant is over.
I dunno, "Nobody should be armed and you leftists are stupid hicks if you think otherwise" while also admitting that BIPOC should be able to protect themselves from fascists kinda seems like you have no actual standards in your beliefs which are utter nonsense but wtf do I know
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