Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.

With Donald Trump sending armed federal agents into communities around the country, even more once gun-shy liberals and leftists are considering getting armed.

And while Americans tend to think of gun owners as leaning more Republican and male, already more women, gay people and people of color have taken up arms in recent years, particularly after 2020.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    i never said they were smart people. but where i live it’s a super common attitude and I am the weirdo.

    To me guns are just tools. I think tool nuts are just as weird as gun nuts.

    I know one guy who just collects expensive tools to oogle them and doesn’t even use them. He buys like $200 hammers.

    Allowing the enemy to be the only group who is armed and trained is not very bright position your friends are taking. A lot of leftist are armed because we know that all these threats that the right keeps making towards us are serious