• Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      3 hours ago

      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.