• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Second Amendment still going strong. Show up with guns if you want to change things. Not even joking. Armed demonstrations get treated more seriously. I still remember twitter footage where cops were ready to kettle in protestors then saw the group marching with guns and they decided to simply hold their position instead of trying to pinser them in.

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      1 year ago

      Theres nothing illegal about armed demonstrations, why remove the comment? Protesting while carrying arms is explicitly legal under US law. There was no call to violence, no celebration of violence whats going on?

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      1 year ago

      Strong than even written. They actually make shit up that was never in there and attribute it to the 2nd ammendment.

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        Problem is, the cops have guns. If you want guns to be the last resort, you need to increase the cost of using guns. The way to do that is to bring both sides of that equation up to parity.

        Unequal armament makes armed conflict more attractive to those who are armed. Equal armament makes armed conflict a last resort.