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Too bad this is an extremely rare use case, but yes this is exactly the INTENT of the second amendment.
Does it actually work? Because I fear that it doesn't and just gives cops/the state even more excuses to further militarize police in the long teem.
I'm not antigun, but this seems like an arms race you can't win.
It does. Armed peaceful protesters don't get hassled by the police. These are armed peaceful protesters and they were not hassled. It worked for the black panthers. Cops only brutalize the weak.
Well I'm not sure it worked that well for Fred Hampton or the MOVE guys.
There's always a danger of escalation, and the boys in blue have no upper limit.
There were quite a few shoot outs between panthers and cops, no? Some even argue that the increasing use of "swat" was, in part, because of black panthers.
Again, I'm not speaking out against armed groups, but it seems a bit romantized to say "armed protesters don't get hasseled"..
I'm pretty sure there are some statistics on the mental profiles of cops the people who end up becoming them being people who enjoy power.
And this is a failure of the system. The failure to identify and reject these sick fucks.
Failure of the system, or working exactly how it was intended?
lol okay
Well if you think about it the population has the numbers, so do the math
The vast majority is not willing to die in armed struggle against the state..
More will be willing once they realize that the state will kill them whether they support it or not.
The INTENT of the second amendment was protect the states' militias from being disarmed by the feds. So that enslavers like Washington could rest assured that his slave state of Virginia wouldn't be liberated by the feds