Isn’t this why the 2nd Amendment exists?

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On 2/8/2025 at 6:43 AM, wmw999 said:

One law for thee, another for me

Wendy P. 

To which side of the aisle are you referring?  It isn't obvious.

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On 2/11/2025 at 10:14 AM, base698 said:

If you don't agree there has been immense pressure across corporate, media and academia for left leaning views since at least Trump i don't really know what to say. 

There always has been.

Wanting to free the slaves in the US was a "left leaning/progressive view."  So was desegregation.  So was interracial marriage.  So was giving women the right to own property and to vote.  So was legalizing gay marriage.  So are LGBT rights.  There has ALWAYS been pressure for those things, and there has ALWAYS been pushback from conservatives.  That has been true for as long as there has been a United States.

What changes, with time, is that old Overton Window.  When the US was first founded, there was already some pushback on slavery in the US.  The liberal Northern states didn't want it; the more conservative Southern states not only wanted it, they wanted guarantees in the Constitution that it would not be interfered with.  At that point, freeing the blacks in the US was not unthinkable; the North was already thinking about it.  But it was radical.  Radical enough that it could not be done when the Constitution was written (unfortunately.)  Over time the idea started to cross the line to acceptable, and at that point an entire Civil War was fought over it.

But at the time of the drafting of the Constitution, the idea that blacks could be the equals of whites was unthinkable, even to Northern libtards.  It took a Civil War, and decades of black activists being lynched, shot and beaten to death, that the idea went from unthinkable to radical to most Americans.  Then, with the advent of shitlib Martin Luther King, it became acceptable.  Still lots of pushback; including in the form of a sniper's bullet.  Affirmative action got a lot more white people to meet/go to school with/work with black people, and that's one of the factors that pushed true black equality towards sensible.  Finally, with the civil rights laws between 1960 and 1990 it became policy.

We have seen, and will continue to see, the same sort of progression in all the topics discussed above.