If you take this meme at face value and think this is how it went down, you were too young in the 80s to remember or were not born yet. The FFA did not go down without an extreme fight.
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I understand what you mean, ideologically they both seem disastrous to me
I wonder how many people today remember that the Mulford Act of 1967 that Reagan passed and the NRA supported was written because the Black Panthers were dutifully observing their Constitutional rights in the face of a corrupt and racist government.
https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act