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I mean I agree with you on the technicality, but the uniquely American view that someone can take a gun to a protest and not be looking for trouble is a very in
by RC_ITR 5y ago
I mean I agree with you on the technicality, but the uniquely American view that someone can take a gun to a protest and not be looking for trouble is a very interesting one.
- dudul 5y agoHe took a gun to a protest because he had the right to do so. He can take a gun to home depot if he wants to. Doesn't matter if he was "looking for trouble", he had the constitutional right to do that.
- xyzzyz 5y agoI didn’t know that Home Depot allows guns, but I just checked, and apparently Home Depot allows even open carry in jurisdictions where it’s legal. Nice, I like Home Depot even more now.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoThat is clearly fucked up.
- dudul 5y agoClearly not since it saved his life.
- notinty 5y agoBit of a chicken and egg there, to be fair.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoLaws against guns don’t affect criminals that show no regard for following the law.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoLaws: who needs 'em.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoDid the DMCA prevents you from ever pirating?
- RC_ITR 5y agoWow, shooting that bear at the zoo really saved my life.
- juanani 5y agoA bear leaving its cage and charging at you? What's your defense? Yelling 'BLM'?
- neartheplain 5y agoHe took a gun to a small business at the owner's request, per police investigation, photo and video evidence, and the sworn testimony of numerous witnesses. The riot came to him.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoHe is studying nursing. He was making sure people stayed safe and had first aid with him.
- RC_ITR 5y agoUhhhh, why is a teenager who isn’t legally allowed to drink in charge of armed protection of capital? It’s fine, you can say out loud that you don’t value the lives of people you disagree with.
- boppo1 5y ago"Protest" is an incomplete characterization. The night he was there was the second night of wanton destruction. It was something between a riot and a protest. I have a hard time grasping the racial justice achieved by destroying property owned by people of color.
- Nursie 5y agoEven so, J Random Citizen getting tooled up and travelling to do something about it... it's very alien. That's a law enforcement role in most of the rest of the western world.
- boppo1 5y agoI agree, as do many of the level-headed takes I saw in threads following the live trial. It's been rumored that the police department pulled out of a large part of the community based on instructions from the mayor's office [0]. Hence, if the rumors are true, the real fault here lies with the local administration. [0] I have no source, but it seems consistent with the police behavior observable in the videos.
- maccolgan 5y agoI see you have missed the 5th Amendment rationale memo. >That's a law enforcement role in most of the rest of the western world. Might want to take a step back and realize what they were protesting.
- esyir 5y ago
- Akronymus 5y ago... view that someone can keep a guard dog on a property and not be looking for trouble is a very interesting one. That's IMO essentially the same statement. Why shouldn't you have deterrence?