• commandar@kbin.social
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    Easiest way to kickstart it is arming at-risk minorities.

    California’s strict gun laws have their roots in white conservatives’ reaction to the Black Panthers marching with rifles while St. Reagan was governor of the state.

    The upside of this strategy is that if the gun laws don’t change, then at least those minorities will have some means of protecting themselves.

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      +1, if anyone wants to know why California has such restrictive gun laws those started in response to the Black Panthers policing our cops.

      Edit: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2020/04/the-black-panthers-nra-ronald-reagan-armed-extremists-and-the-second-amendment/

      So, yeah, have black people show up with ARs in some state capitols and you’ll kickstart gun control right quick. Arming liberal women, gays and trans people in red states and having them show up at the capitol might work too.

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      The down side is that it gives white supremacists the same excuse to execute minorities in the street as the police use.

      If guns actually helped oppressed and abused minorities, America would be the safest place in the world for them. Instead, they’re routinely hunted by domestic terrorists, almost all of whom are legal gun owners.

      The reality is that the gun lobby figured out that you can sell hero fantasies to leftists too.

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        The reality is that they already have all the excuse they need.

        Personally, I’m not a fan of the side that’s perfectly happy with pursuing genocide having the perception that they have a monopoly of violence.

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        Have you seen the Ahmaud Arbery video? Did you know that the DA of that county is under indictment for trying to bury that case when all 3 defendants were eventually convicted? These monsters don’t wait for an excuse, the existence of anyone who isn’t a cishet white Christian Republican is their excuse to be violent.

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          If Arbery had a gun they’d have 100% been acquitted. Cops regularly point to weapons in the rough vicinity of black men to justify their shootings.

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            That’s the thing, if Arbery had a gun, it’s very likely several of them wouldn’t have survived the encounter. Which, as far as racists go, is a very preferable turnout to me.

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          Sure, and that’s a systemic issue that needs solving or it will only get worse as people join specifically to kill and oppress minorities.

          But guns are still no solution and anyone promoting them as one is clearly just parroting gun lobby talking points without actually thinking them through.

          If Ahmaud Arbery had a gun within 20ft of him, everybody involved would be walking free.

          But beyond that, when exactly was he supposed to open fire on police and how do these gun advocates expect that to play out? The moment a minority uses a gun to defend themselves from police, they’re as good as dead. The best case scenario is decades in prison.

          And if all minorities started doing it? Police executions would skyrocket – including for unarmed people – and we’d never see them convicted again.