@wednesday ADMIN: We lost our grounding in community and the history of militant leftist organizing, and became a genuine "gun club" where much of the focus was on the type of training I'm criticizing in this thread, with little thought towards whether it was actually making people safer in real situations. As a more experienced organizer and self defense instructor who initially had little knowledge of guns when I joined, I saw the issue but didn't feel I could point it out
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