#USA #2ndAmendment
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/29/donald-trump-you-cant-have-guns/88393696007/

As a brown person who has had firearms in the #US, this lands.
I remember musing why when I purchased a gun that there was 'race' on the form. As if there was a room in DC where they had a running count of Samoans who owned legal weapons (Samoan was a race option).
You want some real fun? Read about the history of the US Census. It ain't pretty.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-second-ammendment/
Gun Rights Activists Briefly Pause MAGA Cheerleading To Half-Assedly Defend Rights Of Murdered Minnesotan

This nation is filled with loudmouths who claim the Second Amendment ensures the rest of the amendments are protected. There are a lot of gun owners who bristle at any hint of gun control, even as …
Could not be clearer.

"It’s clear Trump is setting us up for more violence. Pitting warrantless ICE home entries against Stand Your Ground laws presents another unwanted, unsettled question of law that will only be settled after someone else needlessly dies."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #Republicans #guns #GunRights #2ndAmendment #AlexPretti
/7
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/ice-warrantless-entries-meet-stand
"The right’s pushback on government authority has always been selective and identity-based: white ranchers asserting their property claims, good; diverse groups demanding a correction to racist policing, bad."
Catherine Thompson
#Trump #Republicans #guns #GunRights #2ndAmendment #AlexPretti
/6
"The secret sauce of American gun-nuttery is that its largely white, rural, conservative exponents are wholly backed up by the very state that their Second Amendment ideology is supposed to oppose. They triumph, not because of their innate political acumen or even their marksmanship, but because the cops either look the other way or actively aid them whenever they go marauding with all their haphazard, half-drunk revenge fantasies."