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I don't get it. Please explain. All I see is just four panels of a woman standing there. What's the joke?
Honestly it's so contextual I don't think a single person seeing this would read it the exact same way same way in terms of determining motivation and meaning.
Does OP think guns can't be self defense tools? Are they implying they want to use it offensively instead? What does the original author intend?
Is it just about a trans person challenging their previously held beliefs?
She sees the sign
She considers the training
She comes to her senses and realizes what a bad idea owning a gun would be
She feels bad for having considered it
It's one of those common human reaction things, Oh yeah, I have done that.
Why would it be bad? The right wing wants trans people dead, we need to defend ourselves
I don't want people carrying guns on the street. But I want even less to be the only one without a gun in the street.
Luckily, I live in a country with proper gun control.
Pretty sure that transgender folks are still people and therefore are governed and given rights (including the second amendment) by the constitution.
Fucking nuts how the constitution applies to everyone in the U.S. huh?
for now lol, republicans are trying to get transgenderism to be legally a terrorist organization or mental illness
Which rock you been living under? The current administration is itching to ban trans people from owning guns.
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-ban-trans-gun-owners-trump-e05b489ad64b80af31e376d6d3ef7dfd
Completely aware. I thought someone was agreeing with it, so I felt the need to defend.
The joke is that they will be banned. Once the government declares transexuals as mentally ill, no guns. Watch. Money says the next Form 4473 asks the question.
My apologies, I got defensive
Thought you were defending the idea.
Thanks for being nice cause it would have been easy to be rude to me back
Yeah no idea
Must be something I'm to Australian for
I'm American and haven't the foggiest. She realizes something in the third panel, but I'm not sure what that is.
does it have something to do with the initialism of the poster being "DHT"? the person is wear a trans flag and from the little I know DHT is used in transitioning ftm.