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jjacksonRIAB 25 points ago +26 / -1

I find the conspicuous consumption a bit embarrassing tbh. Maybe instead of Sunday Gunday where grown men flaunt their possessions, the focus should be Marksmanship Sunday where people show their targets, group sizes and the range - and to the ones who are new to it, track their progress through time or get tips on how to improve.

But that's just me.

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Spirit_of_Resistance 10 points ago +11 / -1

Sounds like something you could start doing yourself inside Sunday gunday than taking out Sunday gunday as a whole

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sackofwisdom 3 points ago +3 / -0

Great point. Be the change you want to see. Make the content YOU like because other people out there will share your taste.

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jjacksonRIAB 0 points ago +2 / -2

I'm not suggesting taking it out - it's a free(ish) country and people can do whatever they want.

To me it's like seeing a soyface grinning while holding some product like a video game instead of demonstrating their skill at playing it. What's the point? Are you signaling that you understand your solemn duty or are you merely signaling your ability to be a good consumer? Product placement or shot placement?

It's just food for thought and I think it was fair for u/your_MOM to bring it up.

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Spirit_of_Resistance 4 points ago +4 / -0

If they or you want to do those things you're welcome to. If you think you can slyly toss insults in there to the people partaking in gunday while trying to remove or 'appropriate' it you can go sit on one

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jjacksonRIAB 0 points ago +1 / -1

You have failed to articulate any rationale as to why I should respect that kind of crass consumerism. Respect is earned. You don't earn my respect by bringing an anti-materiel rifle to a protest to advertise your mercantile aspirations. You don't earn my respect by seeing armed communists creating roadblocks, effectively menacing people into compliance, and then criticizing their firearm accessories like a teenager girl criticizes another girl's shoes.

I can articulate why I don't like it. It signals to me that far too many do not take what's happening seriously, that their guns are some kind of toy or hobby to them and they'll stamp their feet like children when they're taken away, but in the end they will be taken away.

You can feel insulted by that characterization if you like, but the fact that there is very little real pushback against this behavior while people are being sent to prison for defending themselves tells me, at least, that many people presumably on our side don't preserve the "spirit of resistance" but at best view their firearms as some kind of totemic symbol to ward off evil rather than a tool of resistance - and at worst see it as an opportunity to status signal.

Either way I can't help but find it embarrassing. Feeling insulted doesn't make you right or give you any special claim to strawman me.

EDIT I'm sure the people who participate in this are fine people, but I'd just like them to consider what I and others have said, that's all.