One of my primary takeaways from the BLM protests was The efficacy of open carry protest at Stone Mountain in Georgia.
In LA protesters are getting the shit beat out of them. In New York protesters get the shit beat out of them. But as soon as there’s 200 protesters with AR-15s suddenly it’s “can’t we all just get along”… Suddenly the cops are cool headed, rational, and preventing escalation at all costs.
It really sucks to say this, but the 2A people spent decades telling us we were throwing away a fundamentally important right that could protect us from tyranny. Lots of people scoffed at them and explained you can’t stand up to the government. Too many of us have forgotten that gun control was started in California under Governor Ronald Reagan to prevent the Black Panthers from armed protest.
The 2A people are still poised to protect themselves and their interests from government abuse, they’re just not going to protect YOU from tyranny. You have to do that bit yourself.
The 2A people joined aligned themselves with the new government perpetuating the abuse. They’re against the parts of the constitution that include rights for people they disagree with. They aren’t interested in protecting anyone, their interests are in supporting the oppression.
Yeah, the 2nd Amendment was intended to prevent exactly this, but the authors of the constitution placed far too much faith in decent and intelligent people running the government. They never foresaw the intent of the rules being corrupted and those tasked with defending the constitution instead deciding to dismantle it.
E: removed “joined” to avoid semantic debate. It is a self reinforcing loop. The political sphere courted the extremes, the extremes voted in more fringe politicians, those politicians supported the extremists. White extremism is part of the government. White extremism and right wing politics in general exploits the Second Amendment to use it as implied threat of violence to perpetuate their extremism.
One of my primary takeaways from the BLM protests was The efficacy of open carry protest at Stone Mountain in Georgia.
In LA protesters are getting the shit beat out of them. In New York protesters get the shit beat out of them. But as soon as there’s 200 protesters with AR-15s suddenly it’s “can’t we all just get along”… Suddenly the cops are cool headed, rational, and preventing escalation at all costs.
It really sucks to say this, but the 2A people spent decades telling us we were throwing away a fundamentally important right that could protect us from tyranny. Lots of people scoffed at them and explained you can’t stand up to the government. Too many of us have forgotten that gun control was started in California under Governor Ronald Reagan to prevent the Black Panthers from armed protest.
The 2A people are still poised to protect themselves and their interests from government abuse, they’re just not going to protect YOU from tyranny. You have to do that bit yourself.
The 2A people
joinedaligned themselves with the new government perpetuating the abuse. They’re against the parts of the constitution that include rights for people they disagree with. They aren’t interested in protecting anyone, their interests are in supporting the oppression.Yeah, the 2nd Amendment was intended to prevent exactly this, but the authors of the constitution placed far too much faith in decent and intelligent people running the government. They never foresaw the intent of the rules being corrupted and those tasked with defending the constitution instead deciding to dismantle it.
E: removed “joined” to avoid semantic debate. It is a self reinforcing loop. The political sphere courted the extremes, the extremes voted in more fringe politicians, those politicians supported the extremists. White extremism is part of the government. White extremism and right wing politics in general exploits the Second Amendment to use it as implied threat of violence to perpetuate their extremism.
Not all of us “2A people” support or tolerate fascism.
Said for years that an armed citizenry is a deterrent, not an army.
And just lookee here! The fascists are going after people in the places with the strictest gun laws.