It’s a good sentiment, but also…
Please don’t trivialize how police respond to an armed black man.
Yeah, in a modern police state, owning a firearm isn’t gonna help once you’re in their sights. If you think it will, that just means you’re being brought in cold rather than doing time.
I’m all for self protection, though, and ensuring that it isn’t only the right who’s armed.
Like most things, this kind of thing works at scale. You’re not going to have a shootout with police and FBI and drive away like GTA, but we’ve seen time and again from both sides of the political spectrum that police will change their behavior when a community or protest is full of guns.
No matter what the action is it needs to be collective action. This is why organizing is the most important thing, more than guns, more than theory, more than protest.
Literally every single one of you gun-obsessed buffoons is oppressed by a handful of billionaires, minority or not.
And only one person actually did anything about it.
Absolute cowards 😂
Says the person who is also not doing anything about it.
You’re British 🤷♂️ /j
It seems unnecessarily hostile to go around insulting people unpropted, but if that’s the way you wanna participate in and shape the culture of the fediverse I guess that’s your perogative
I’m french, you buffoon
A Frenchman? Picking a British instance?? Your ancestors would be ashamed >.> /j
Have a good one, much love from the US (sorry we elected a fascist, I’m sure that’ll suck for pretty much the whole planet 🙃)
Even worse
No, even worse would be Belgian. Or god forbid, a yank
Kinda cringy being French and talking Bri’ishly like that. (plus feddit.UK). Even since Lafayette died it has been down hill for France it seems.
Guns don’t protect white Americans from State violence. What TF are guns going to do for minorities?
I mean you could remove the “minorities” from the post and it would be just as accurate.
An armed population is harder to oppress.
Look how dictatorship 101 starts with removing any easy ways for the people to defend themselves.
That’s true, but one of the biggest hallmarks of fascism is framing a minority population (or several) as the villains responsible for all that ails the nation, and often times there’s no one to stand up for them save for themselves, ultimately resulting in that old addage:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
If you’re a minority and no one will protect you, it’s important to consider what means you might have of protecting yourself, and other minorities. If you’re willing to stand up for one another, their safety is yours, and yours is theirs.
You’re definitely not wrong though. I just think it’s perhaps especially important for vulnerable populations
What are you talking about? All those idiot gun nuts who voted for trump are oppressed as shit. They have them around their finger, no matter how many guns they have. In fact they use their gun ownership to feed the cycle.
"You bet " ~ Israelis
“You bet” ~ Nazis, USA, Vietnamese, North Korea, South Korea, Black people, White people, leftist, maga, All the good guys, All the bad guys.
Everyone.
Thanks!
