The Ron Show28 Maalis 2023

The right's TRANSitioning from guns ... of course.

I make it no secret I'm not a fan of Erick Erickson. The man's divisive and lacking in self-awareness on a grand scale - as most right wing pundits tend to be. Some of his most recent anti-trans rhetoric, however can't go unnoticed here. As we're learning more about the Nashville school shooting killer, Eric wants to play the false equivalency game while feigning innocence in doing some mis-characterizing of the trans community in the process, and I'm here to call him out on it.

The "if this were a Christian ..." argument is null & void because that conversation's almost never come up; but perhaps it's time to discuss the white supremacy issue as it relates to protestant evanglicism and their long history tied to one another. Wait; why now when the Nashville killer isn't (likely) a white supremacist and/or Christian? Well, actually, how do we know the killer wasn't a Christian? Is her identifying as trans somehow absolve her of having been raised Christian?

Do we point out that 80% of 2022's extremist-related murders were tied to white supremacists or nah?

Erick would have his flock ratcheting up their defenses (perhaps offenses, too?) for a "culture war" as if this "culture war" hasn't long BEEN in action - with the marginalized perpetually under assault all along.

Again, it's never about the access to guns, with them, though. The alleged shooter was a "highly functioning" autistic person. Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook) was, too. I'm not saying everyone on the spectrum should be denied the right to bear arms, but perhaps a conversation is warranted about some additional scrutiny, maybe?

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