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You can't overthrow violent oppressors using peaceful means
(sh.itjust.works)
ID: 4 panels:
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A self righteous person holds their hand up and says "Violence is never the solution."
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Stephie replies with a smile "Oh! So you agree that we shouldn't give weapons to the police?"
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She adds "And that we should dismantle the army?"
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Stephie is now right up behind the other person, looking angry, saying "Or did you mean that violence is only a solution when it helps maintain the status quo?". The other person looks deeply uncomfortable.
Credit: Sophie Labelle
... y'all know there's other countries, right? And that in those countries there's cops? A lot of those cops genuinely do not carry guns, because neither does anyone else.
Police in Iceland shot a guy for the first time ever in 2013.
Even in US-adjacent Canadia, the Parliament Hill shooting saw a mountie go back to his office, retrieve a gun from a locked safe, and return to the scene to kill the shooter.
We can have police who aren't eternally three seconds away from putting a bullet in someone's brain. In what universe is that less achievable than abolishing them completely?