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Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her organisation has seen a "huge" rise in enquiries since November's election and a 10% increase in paid members.

Some of the new members are reluctant first-time gun owners, says Smith, concerned that isolated acts of aggression against minorities could escalate into something more violent and that a Trump administration will dismantle key constitutional rights, leading to a "more fascist rule than the US has ever had".

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"It just feels like we are living at the end of the world and everybody expects the apocalypse to come sooner rather than later," says Clara, the nursing student.

"So learning how to shoot a gun doesn't seem like a bad idea. Certainly more useful than learning how to make PowerPoint slides, or whatever."

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

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Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her organisation has seen a "huge" rise in enquiries since November's election and a 10% increase in paid members.

Some of the new members are reluctant first-time gun owners, says Smith, concerned that isolated acts of aggression against minorities could escalate into something more violent and that a Trump administration will dismantle key constitutional rights, leading to a "more fascist rule than the US has ever had".

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"It just feels like we are living at the end of the world and everybody expects the apocalypse to come sooner rather than later," says Clara, the nursing student.

"So learning how to shoot a gun doesn't seem like a bad idea. Certainly more useful than learning how to make PowerPoint slides, or whatever."

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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

I'm assuming they're not buying the guns to hunt so they have finally figured out what the Second Amendment really means. It's a step and as I said, welcome all.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

I'm assuming they're not buying the guns to hunt so they have finally figured out what the Second Amendment really means. It's a step and as I said, welcome all.

It is nice to see they have come around to see the truth.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

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You would think with all the bickering over gun threads on these boards that when there is a sign that liberals are warming up to the idea, the gun enthusiasts would be happy. But, damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Oh, and a handful of liberals freak out and go buy guns, so they are all hypocrites.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Two of us have expressed support for liberals coming around. How ever I still want to know how anyone knows it is liberals buying the guns. It isn't on the background check and I have never gotten a question about my political beliefs, salesmen don't pry into that sort of thing. I suspect that this is fake news.

Read the article... or at least the bit I just quoted.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
If it is true my biggest problem would be if people who have spent their whole life in fear of guns, and thus intentionally ignorant of them running around carrying weapons.

Who says they've been afraid? Who says they've been ignorant?

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Two of us have expressed support for liberals coming around. How ever I still want to know how anyone knows it is liberals buying the guns. It isn't on the background check and I have never gotten a question about my political beliefs, salesmen don't pry into that sort of thing. I suspect that this is fake news.

Read the article... or at least the bit I just quoted.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
If it is true my biggest problem would be if people who have spent their whole life in fear of guns, and thus intentionally ignorant of them running around carrying weapons.

Who says they've been afraid? Who says they've been ignorant?

First we need to have some way to know there is some truth in this story.
Libs constantly say that the only reason conservatives own guns is because they are cowards, and they constantly display an unreasoning fear of firearms ownership.
If you don't believe in firearms owner ship you couldn't reasonably own one to be familiar with them, lack of familiarity = ignorance.

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

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Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her organisation has seen a "huge" rise in enquiries since November's election and a 10% increase in paid members.

Some of the new members are reluctant first-time gun owners, says Smith, concerned that isolated acts of aggression against minorities could escalate into something more violent and that a Trump administration will dismantle key constitutional rights, leading to a "more fascist rule than the US has ever had".

***

"It just feels like we are living at the end of the world and everybody expects the apocalypse to come sooner rather than later," says Clara, the nursing student.

"So learning how to shoot a gun doesn't seem like a bad idea. Certainly more useful than learning how to make PowerPoint slides, or whatever."

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

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Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her organisation has seen a "huge" rise in enquiries since November's election and a 10% increase in paid members.

Some of the new members are reluctant first-time gun owners, says Smith, concerned that isolated acts of aggression against minorities could escalate into something more violent and that a Trump administration will dismantle key constitutional rights, leading to a "more fascist rule than the US has ever had".

***

"It just feels like we are living at the end of the world and everybody expects the apocalypse to come sooner rather than later," says Clara, the nursing student.

"So learning how to shoot a gun doesn't seem like a bad idea. Certainly more useful than learning how to make PowerPoint slides, or whatever."

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
And still you have people who have never owned guns who get them out of fear of what they have always called hicks, who think that they are better than gun owners, live in fear of what those hicks are going to do, and have no experience with firearms, everything I said. Further they have someone making these claims but they just assumed that it was the truth and don't seem to have verified it, still no proof. This person who "rolled her eyes" at her father for owning a firearm is the only verifiable new lib gun owner.

If they are pro gun liberals it isn't a story, if they are previously anti-gun liberals it is either false news or everything I I said about them is accurate.