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One is the social leftovers of a political left that literally spit on veterans forty years ago. There may no longer be spitting, but many times the disdain for
by fortythirteen 9y ago
One is the social leftovers of a political left that literally spit on veterans forty years ago. There may no longer be spitting, but many times the disdain for military is still palpable.
Another is that the military is a large group of people who have seen the manifest benefits of the Second Amendment, in that they have witnessed what happens in countries where only a small portion of the population are allowed to arm themselves. Since much, if not most of the the American left is adamantly anti-2A, backed by fear-mongering, left-leaning journalists who are comically uninformed about firearms, it makes for a huge political rift.
- trowawee 9y agoThere is no documented evidence[1] that any veterans were spit on. This is a pernicious myth. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vietnam-protester.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vie...