About two hours after leaving the range, a Twitter account that espouses right-wing views started posting about the friends’ location. Video footage published online three weeks later shows an associate of the American Guard, a group with white supremacist ties, yelling at a rally that she got the friends’ names and numbers from Discount Gun Mart.
The friends haven’t been able to prove how exactly their whereabouts and activities became public, but they believe it occurred after a Gun Mart employee recognized Loder as a left-wing activist. Loder has garnered attention for exposing members of hate groups and documenting people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
State law requires businesses to protect customers’ personal information from unauthorized disclosure and to inform them of any breaches of their data.
How terrifying and how infuriating. They need to stop saying these groups have ties to white supremacists and just outright call them what they are. White Supremacist terrorists. Not that hard to say.
Gun ownership making you safer is a myth. You can parse gun violence into mental health events, violent crime, and accidents, but none of those categories are made better by owning a gun.
When you are around guns, things get more violent, not less.
Sure, it would be nice if nobody had guns. But it really sucks when the Nazis and the cops have guns, and nobody else does.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve been saying for years that ceding all the guns to one side of the political discussion was a recipe for disaster. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Precisely. I may not be safe with a gun, but why should I let the bad people in the world be the only one who is armed?
In England the cops don’t regularly carry guns, and no, there are not mass stabbings all the time instead.
I think we could find some interesting differences in the history of English policing and US policing. Possibly also throw Northern Ireland in there for some other comparisons.
I live here in SD. This has been quite the topic locally. It’s also extremely depressing that San Diego County Gun Owners has been depressingly silent over it.
