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[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 129 points 4 months ago

As a 2A liberal, I LOVE this. Black Panthers did it right, don't change what works!

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 106 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: California's anti-gun culture was born out of racism and fear of the Black Panthers.

Ronald fucking Reagan started the anti-gun movement to disarm black people

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

And then continued it federally with bans on assault weapons and magazines over a certain capacity after someone tried to assassinate him.

I say we should bring back the Reagan approach on gun control.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

You mean shooting presidents? That's kinda like a tradition in the one country. In other places it's more normal for US sponsored coups.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, it can't be that some people are more reasonable and don't like in a western.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

No. Sadly, it can't. It's the racism. It's always the racism.

[-] Leg@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's an uncanny irony to me when I hear something like "not everything has to be about race" when, at least from the perspective of a non-white, everything in society really does have an unavoidable racial asterisk that we really wish wasn't there. Racism is a fixed worldwide phenomenon that we have no choice but to acknowledge at this point. It impacts everything.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, you have no choice but to acknowledge it. I'm perfectly capable of pretending it doesn't exist because it doesn't negatively affect me.

(That's sarcasm, if it wasn't clear. I hate that there are people genuinely living by that maxim.)

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

You love it? You don't look at this and think "This can't possibly be how a reasonable society works"?

[-] Liz@midwest.social 41 points 4 months ago

When it stops being illegal to help vulnerable people, I'll stop cheering for folks who open carry firearms to deter cops that might otherwise try to stop them.

[-] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 38 points 4 months ago

Of course most of us don't love it. A lot of us live in places where, due to concepts like gerrymandering, we have no political choice, so people have to resort to stuff like this. We love that people are fighting back, not that it has to be this way.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, moving somewhere else isn't an option, but pow pow bang bang shooty shooty sure is!

[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Nobody is gonna stop you if you want to help homeless people move to a state that doesnt actively hate them

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

It isn't how reasonable society works. It is how OUR society works. Can't play by the rules of another game you wish you were playing, you will lose every time.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Exactly how a gun nut would think.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago

If we lived in a reasonable society, there'd be no need to deter the police.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

And the key to getting to a reasonable society is for everybody to wear guns.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago
[-] snooggums@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

One that uses government funds to feed and house the homeless instead of using the police to punish them for being homeless and anyone who tries to help.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
[-] snooggums@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

That is correct.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Where are you getting reasonable society from lmao

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Not everyone agrees the cops should do whatever they want and sorting it out in court later is the way

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

That's like saying the tolerant can't be intolerant of the intolerant, when in fact they have to be.

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