• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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 ad 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.