April 19th, 1993 was the last of the 51 day long siege in Waco, TX over 'suspected' small arms violations. A siege that could have been easily avoided. A siege that took the lives of 82 people, 28 of which were children.
A siege begun by an agency absolutely desperate for relevance after absolutely fumbling another disaster shortly before.
A siege where the powers that be felt the need to bring heavily armored vehicles in as a show of force.
A siege that was ultimately viewed as a success, one in which individuals were given medals in private ceremonies and allowed to continue their careers in Federal Law Enforcement for decades.
A siege that was (and is still) openly lied about by the Biden Nominee for ATF Director, who has since bowed out of the public eye, where he claimed the cultists shot down helicopters with 50 caliber rifles during a Reddit AMA.
A siege that is still honored to this day.
Im certainly no fan of the Davidians, much like any cult, however none of them deserved to be made an example of with regards to the autonomy of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives & the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
So when some antigun idiot has the audacity to tell me 'nobody is coming for your guns' I know they're lying to me.
Give to & be members of gunrights organizations, be an active part of the community, put your utter nonsense aside and understand who your actual enemies are.
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My favorite part about all of this, is how @dom_lucre & @DonutOperator get QTd so do a bunch of others but the guy that started this firestorm off with receipts has only been watched from afar.
“Here be dragons”
PR team doesn’t really know how to handle me do they?
“Call him a republican”
“Fuck a bunch of anarchists and trans people follow him”
“he must be an anarchist then!”
“Uh…buncha cops follow him too”
“Progressive?”
“No, he shits on AOC”
??????
Calling me a conspiracy theorist doesn’t ring all that well either when I’m pulling FEC data, and articles written by people in your particular court bragging about how the WH is having you influence your audiences.
People like Hogg & the MGMT dorks wanna talk about pandemics while the biggest pandemics in the US, obesity & mental health are simultaneously ignored when inconvenient and encouraged when its election season.
Now I’m certainly not going to shy away from the death numbers where guns were involved either, because if I did that I would be just as biased as they.
However on average 40-60% of gun deaths per year are suicides, now take a look at that anti depressants graph again.
Address mental health and your suicide numbers go away (in a perfect world) and so does the majority of your “mass casualty” incidents and what’s left are accidental deaths, gang related and police shootings.
Shout out to that white lady in Texas that stole a machine gun out of a NG vehicle only to brag about it on twitter for clout and have no repercussions.
All while some dude catching football numbers for drawings of a lightning link.
Everyone is really quick to praise when LEOs are leaving agencies in record numbers but fail to realize the majority of the ones leaving are the ones that act like this.
You think stuff is bad now? Wait till all that’s left is obedient ‘yes men’ who bow before the state.
Wait till all that’s left are the “I was just following orders” types.
Don’t get it twisted, the whole thing needs work, but chasing out everyone who wants to serve their community while the pay check chasers stay is how you get Waco.