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We posted a video 4 hours ago from the courthouse. #ice pointed rifles at citizens in peaceful protest. We think too many liberal media personalities are clueless. They post memes and in denial, they ARE AFRAID TO FIGHT. #SecondAmendment time

More here Federal officers also "pointed their rifles, deployed pepper spray, and shoved people to the ground."

https://sfist. com/2025/07/08/ice-suv-plows-through-protesters-at-sf-courthouse-as-protest-turns-ugly/

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@Lana Notice that every accusation in this toot is a confession.

Hypocrisy is a feature and not a bug for these people.

They will be devious, hate-filled, silence critics, threaten consequences, deport, engage in treason, act out of fake concern, spit, put people on kill lists, incite violence, promote chaos, arrest, ban, and murder.

Unfortunately, I suspect the time for peaceful protest and an airing of grievances has passed. #SecondAmendment #Tyranny

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Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh, who could have supplied the fourth vote needed to add the case to the court’s docket, issued a statement saying the question was significant & could soon warrant review but that he hoped additional opinions from lower courts could assist the justices on the issue. He wrote that #SCOTUS “should & presumably will address the #AR15 issue soon, in the next term or two.”

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“I doubt we would sit idly by if lower courts were to so subvert our precedents involving any other constitutional right,” [ummm what?] he wrote. “Until we are vigilant in enforcing it, the right to bear arms will remain ‘a second-class right.’” [#hypocrisy]

Justices #Alito & #Gorsuch said they too would have heard the case but did not provide reasons.

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“I would not wait to decide whether the government can ban the most popular rifle in America,” #ClarenceThomas wrote. “That question is of critical importance to tens of millions of law-abiding #AR15 owners throughout the country. We have avoided deciding it for a full decade.”

He added that the court’s commitment to the #SecondAmendment was inadequate.

#SCOTUS announced on Monday that it would NOT hear a major #SecondAmendment challenge to a Maryland #law banning #SemiautomaticRifles like the #AR15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons.

The move, over the objections of 3 conservative justices, let the ban stand & reflected the court’s intermittent engagement with #GunRights. It has issued only 3 significant #2A decisions since recognizing an individual right to own #guns in 2008.

nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/supr

The New York Times · Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic RiflesBy Adam Liptak

Hey, to everyone one of you hopeless lost #Democrats who have @ @stalbaum about my support for the second amendment. I will say it again: unilateral disarmament ends the same way, every time. If San Diego had community self defense maybe it would not go down like this. #guns #secondamendment #2nd

Start building community self defense now, or just lay down and enjoy your #Kristallnacht, idk what else can be done for you.

npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-54189

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@xankarn
I think this is partly why so many #Republicans who scream "READ THE CONSTITUTION!" have never actually read The #Constitution.

They make nonsense claims like "The #SecondAmendment is the one that protects all the rest" (as if the #FoundingFathers gave everyone the right to SHOOT THEM if they disagreed.)

It's actually the FIRST Amendment (Protest, redress of grievances & assemble) that "protects the rest".

Now they want to *abolish* any Amendment they dislike (ie: the 14th & 22nd.)

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@GottaLaff
If #Democrats treated the #SecondAmendment the way #Republicans WILLINGLY accept limits on the FIRST, they'd be storming the Capitol (once again.)

I roll my eyes 🙄 when Gun Nuts try to claim (incorrectly) that "the 2nd Amendment is the one that protects all the rest" (no, that's actually the 1st) when they SO willingly accept abridging "all the rest" (or even ABOLISHING the ones they don't like, such as the 14th & the 22nd.)