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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They may have more guns, but they have about the same number of trigger fingers. Gun ownership by the right is badly skewed by looks like this. One guy with sixty guns is really no better armed than a guy with one gun.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Imagine spending all this money on guns while you're a grown ass-couple still sleeping in a full.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Spent all their money on guns and fake tits. Not enough left for a bed that fits two people.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

My first thought was “my gawd there’s no way my partner and I would fit on that tiny bed”

My second was “oh jeebus, that’s a look”

third was “why are all the guns on the floor”

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Guns, and each boob the size of her head

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Now how many of those have been fired in the last 2 years, and how many rounds have they put through them...

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Is there any particular reason every single gun is aimed vaguely in the direction of those two kids? It somehow makes it look extra tone deaf.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Wow, so gross. These people are morons.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's because the "arming myself to take back my country from leftists" is just them blowing hot air.

They buy lots of guns because someone told them Obama or Biden wants to take away their right to buy guns, so they spend their whole savings on them thinking that they're beating the system...

In many cases, it's a matter of being so fucking scared of the world (common amongst Fox News and other RW media consumers) that the only way they can be comfortable is within arms reach of a gun.

The vast majority of Conservatives don't have the guts to actually take action with their guns, because most of them bought them out of fear of bodily injury, not to enter battle and put their own skin in the game.

The few extremists that actually want to start a civil war are mostly morons with no training who won't accomplish anything but a handful of disorganized mass shootings that will actually freak out everyone else, including other gun owners.