r/law • u/TheWayToBeauty • 7d ago

Legal News The Trump administration’s roundup of student protesters is genuinely shocking

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-student-protesters-immigration
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u/That-Living5913 6d ago

I know this is a rhetorical question, but the answer is more complicated and and worse than just "they are cowards"

That vocal 2a group is winning. At least from their perspective they are. Gun rights are steadily being expanded and have been at the state level for years now. Brown and black people are being terrorized. All those queers are being pushed back to 2nd class citizens.

Even more concerning is that because of all of the above social conflict is rising at an alarming rate. We are steadily marching towards violence in the streets.. which is what those people want. They've spent decades fetishizing the violence they see on tv. Getting those cool punisher tats. And think that it''ll be their chance to be the action hero. But in reality most of that demographic will be dead about 2 months after the supply of blood pressure and diabetes medicine gets cut off.

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u/FrenchDipFellatio 5d ago edited 4d ago

Brown and black people are being terrorized. All those queers are being pushed back to 2nd class citizens.

Sooo the proper response is to have only police get legal access to AR15s, and in some cases (such as Oregon ballot measure 114) gives them the final say over who can be armed? Because that seems like an extremely short-sighted move given the circumstances right now.

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u/That-Living5913 5d ago

I'm not gonna address the AR15 thing.. cause any legislation that calls out a gun by brand is ignorant. If they are trying to ban all "semi-automatic guns with a removable magazine" like... colorado (I think that's who it was) then we need to have a talk. But as to the issue you bring up. There's no answer. We basically have two losing scenarios to choose from,.

  1. We enact sweeping gun control the far left wants that requires a perfectly clean background, A $40 License you have to renew like car tags, add taxes to guns and ammo. Guess who we just priced out of their 2nd amendment right? Those people that need it most right now. Just like that community in columbus that was in the streets with guns and ran off the KKK.

  2. We stick with the conservative side of guns everywhere all at once. No CCDW needed etc. On our current trajectory there's gonna be a gun fight in the street at some point. That's exactly what the crazy / vocal / gun nuts want. Cause then they are gonna be in the streets too. Which will lead to more bodies.

Mark my words though, you are gonna see the conservative talking points shift to option 1. Just like they did the last time minorities were in the streets with guns.