• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Have you seen the Ahmaud Arbery video? Did you know that the DA of that county is under indictment for trying to bury that case when all 3 defendants were eventually convicted? These monsters don’t wait for an excuse, the existence of anyone who isn’t a cishet white Christian Republican is their excuse to be violent.

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      1 year ago

      If Arbery had a gun they’d have 100% been acquitted. Cops regularly point to weapons in the rough vicinity of black men to justify their shootings.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the thing, if Arbery had a gun, it’s very likely several of them wouldn’t have survived the encounter. Which, as far as racists go, is a very preferable turnout to me.

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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 as 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.