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Advocating shooting lessons in the wake of a 2nd Trump term is a call to violence under rule 6. Removed. 24 hour ban.
Fortunately the rules allow for celebrating violence and advocating for nonviolent deaths. If you're going to be pedantic about the exact meaning of your rules to stifle opposition, write better rules.
Rule 6 is NOT ambiguous:
"No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning"
Telling people to practice shooting if Trump is re-elected, or, hell, if ANYONE is elected, is advocating violence.
I advocate shooting lessons because you don't want to hit the wrong object. Isn't that a safe thing to advocate for? 😜
Do we need to talk in code like unalive someone in Minecraft/Roblox?
I absolutely encourage good firearms safety IN GENERAL. You're never too young to learn good trigger discipline. ;)
Advocating it in response to an election or other political event carries unfortunate connotations which isn't allowed.
I'm actually quite pleased at the number of gun groups that have popped up on Lemmy. Liberal Gun Owners for example, I think there's one for LGBTQ shooters as well. Can't recall the name of it.
Since someone is going to be elected pretty much no matter what, "practice shooting if a tone is elected" is logically equivalent to "practice shooting".
Banning proponents of 2A is a bit weird for a politics sub but I like it. Gun nuts are crazy.
Oh, I have no problem with proponents of the 2nd Amendment, it's when you start talking about the 2nd Amendment in connection with other people that there's going to be a problem.
"Trump just became the nominee? Better brush up on the 2nd Amendment..." Surely you see the tone there. It's really no different than what Trump was saying on 1/6, only actually invoking weapons.