• CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Thing is I know actual gun nuts, and while they may be transphobic af, they would be pretty opposed to this.

    I’m talking the people who make guns their entire political and personal identity. Which comprises a not-small number of Americans.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      It’s going to be telling, because there’s the second amendment types that are single issue voters that aren’t super invested in conservative politics as a whole, they just vote Republican because they see them as the second amendment defenders. But there’s also the types that see gun politics as a tool subservient to the conservative project, which is what I see as the NRA types (I grew up around gun nuts too, and plenty of them were skeptical of the NRA). So if this materializes, we’ll see who the true believers are, and who is gonna put cultural conservatism first.