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>> In the UK, there's no right to bear arms, so people are pretty helpless against their oppressing government. There's a right to bear arms in the US and it d
by basisword 2y ago
>> In the UK, there's no right to bear arms, so people are pretty helpless against their oppressing government.
There's a right to bear arms in the US and it doesn't seem to be helping them with their oppressive government.
- protonbob 2y agoLook into the Black Panthers. It actually does work quite effectively.
- krapp 2y agoHow? the Black Panthers were infiltrated and undermined by COINTELPRO and effectively destroyed from within, meanwhile the white supremacist capitalist system they fought against persists. Their biggest success as far as I know is starting free school lunches in the US, but that wasn't at gunpoint.
- ch4s3 2y agoAhh yes the murders of Alex Rackley and Betty Van Patter, truly brave and revolutionary acts!
- jahewson 2y agoThe fact that I can’t tell if this is a joke speaks volumes.
- bloqs 2y agoYou people cannot seriously be this poorly educated
- throw16180339 2y agoThe Mulford Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act), a California gun control act that prohibits open carry, was originally passed back in the 60s to disarm the Black Panthers.
- cupcakecommons 2y agoI feel like it's working pretty great
- grahamj 2y agoIt only works when the gun nuts aren’t on the side of the oppressors.