ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/317681
This is why I'll never understand anti-gun lefties. Keep getting abducted by the authoritarian state.
Yeah, you're real tough buddy. I'm sure you would have shot every cop. They'd learn real quick not to mess with you!
So many gun laws exist today because Black Panthers doing cop watch. Basically they were across the street from police watching them during traffic stops with their guns out and it lead to a lot less people getting killed or mistreated during traffic stops. That's kind of a simplified history of it.
In my area police made some policies that lasted for more than a decade about not patrolling a certain area and then needing to respond with a shitton of officers if there's more than 2 people involved in a "potentially volatile situation" due to a bunch of people shaking a cop car and telling them to f off 20 years ago.
So blasting all quasi legal unmarked cops/ice isn't realistic or necessarily what most 2A people advocate there's plenty of history and merit in letting them know that people can potentially fight back, probably easier than you think to scare them considering a lot of the modern training is fear based
Don't get trapped in individualist thinking
https://dallasexpress.com/city/armed-far-leftists-block-dallas-homeless-vagrant-camp-clean-up/
That's not at all what I'm saying, but if the populace at large was armed these fascists wouldn't be so bold as to break into people's cars. These SS officers of the current day should be afraid to carry out their evil. The problem is we're so full of ourselves we've turned into pussies who are actually complacent with how the state disrespects us. Why do you think the working class keeps losing ground every year? We're more productive and efficient every day, but we lose more and more economic and social power by the minute.
But sure just keep calling me a tough guy while offering no real answers. I'd bet when they're knocking on your door you'll have wished you had something to protect yourself. I'm telling you now, America is cooked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes
Every concession labor has won from the capitalists was bought with blood. The state serves the interests of capital and the workers have always had to defend themselves.
The population at large is armed, though. There's more guns than people in this country.
The problem is that no one is willing to use those guns to stop this.
I almost never see folks open carrying around me or anywhere I travel. Sure there are a lot of guns, but a lot of those guns are owned by a smaller group of people. I can't speak for most states, but it's completely legal to carry in mine, yet only right-wingers do. That's a problem IMO.
Lol wear a ski mask and go break a car window while someone is inside it, you'll make it no further than 3 cars.
Yeah just like all those "tough guys" that resisted Nazi occupation. Guess they were real silly to risk their lives for their freedom
I think there is an increasing amount of people willing to be that tough guy tbh
You don’t have to be tough, just have very poor judgment
Knowing that a cop doesn’t care about your life and will kill you without hesitation is boot licking?
In a nation where we don't have to constantly protect ourselves from the state, we should not need to be saturated with deadly weapons.
Unfortunately, that is not the state of things in this nation.
I'm the most staunch anti-gun European guy you can get, and even I'm starting to come around to that mindset in the case of the US. Of course it's absolutely horrible because it implies y'all going into civil war and like, you know, no one should want that, but it sure is starting to look like Nazi hunting season over there.
It absolutely baffles me to be saying that, guns/violence should never have to be in the equation at all.
When there's a growing danger of being sent off to a concentration camp for standing up for basic human rights ... well, a lot of things are starting to look real 1930 right now.
Only 5 more years
It was never the state of things IMO, we've always needed weapons, just not if you grew up in the burbs.
No, we haven't had concentration camps like this before. Even the Japanese internment camps, while shameful and tragic, were arguably not as bad as what's developing.
What I'm saying is you've never been free from state injustice or even other people trying to unjustly enrich themselves. I'm saying things are bad now because more folks aren't armed. They just let the state bulldoze right over them. Most of us are too complacent to defend our sisters and brothers as they let the state exploit certain members and groups of its citizenry. We just look at ourselves and thank the stars it's not happening to us. Well that mentality is how we got here. Letting the rich and those with power beat us down again and again striping away our power and our futures to enrich a class of elites that only detest us and would eradicate us if they didn't need us.
Ah yes, the real problem is that there wasn't already enough violence.
What is your suggestion then? We have a powwow where we sing kumbaya and hold each other's hands? Genuine question BTW.
Trump and his oligarch friends have instituted "might makes right" and no amount of peaceful protest is going to matter short of large scale self-imposed austerity to hit them in their pocket books, which I think most Americans are too weak-willed to dedicate to. The Dems are complicit too, that's why they do nothing to combat it. Have you noticed how the elites have only gotten rich and powerful since all this started? That's elites from every walk of life, maybe even especially liberal elites.
I'm not saying wonton violence is the answer, but these power tripping fascists will think twice about oppressing a well armed proletariat or feel the wrath a caring community can unleash. Remember these agents are not state level authorities, they're federal.
but these power tripping fascists will think twice about oppressing a well armed proletariat or feel the wrath a caring community can unleash. Remember these agents are not state level authorities, they're federal.
And some state government agencies are already fighting back. But, as always, the people have to demand it. Its easy to to kowtow to the wims of the fascist government- just look at a vast majority of the dems in congress- but if you demand this at the state, county, and city level, they are more likely to listen.
And yes, it is your right in most open carry states to stand with a gun on you near a law enforcement officer who is in the process of their duty, as long as the officer does not perceive you as “interfering with their duty”. You could even record them in many states.
Go far enough left and you get your guns back
Wouldn't it be equally bad for her to brandish her weapon of fire at them?
For her alone in this situation? Yes, it would very likely be even worse for her (but still a silver lining if she were to take out an ICE agent or a few too). But if a community is armed and prepared to defend their members it makes it vastly harder for these fascists to just come and abduct people like this.
Guns alone are not the answer here. But guns paired with community is at least a .Major part of the answer.
Basically the black panthers open carrying and intimidating cops into behaving themselves.
The ideal would be if the entire neighborhood made the Gestapo agents disappear. No "witnesses". Nobody saw jack shit.
Then the state will have to escalate by becoming tankies: sending mechanized artillery against civilian populations. But it's hard to do that quietly and EVEN MORE people might get alarmed enough to take up arms against tyranny.
But I just don't think it's... likely.
People are too wounded and exhausted already.
There is no revolutionary spirit in the masses.
The economic hardship has done its job as intended.
People are too wounded and exhausted already.
There is no revolutionary spirit in the masses.
The economic hardship has done its job as intended.
Those three sentences describe my country around the 50's and 60's. And nonetheless, at some point, the people started organizing and the political police then had their fair share of scares, with agents and even teams being beaten to an inch of their lives.
The police had developed a fear tactic where around dinner time a few unmarked cars would park in the street and a few civilian clothed people would get out, calmly, walk up to a building door, enter, knock on the door they were going to enter, making sure they were noticed by the entire building or neighbourhood, kick the door down if nobody answered and drag people out - men, women, children, no matter - kicking and screaming, by their hair, and throw them in the cars, to never be seen again.
At some point, people snapped. Entire buildings started "welcoming" the agents, the door locked and the agents beaten by a dozen people or more, dragged out, thrown into their cars and driven away to be dumped somewhere and the cars destroyed by fire. The targeted family/house would be spirited away by the resistance, then linked to the communist party.
My own grandfather had his fair share of beatings and not even carrying a gun spared him. One guy told him he had a limited supply of bullets and even if he and a few others were to die, there were plenty to beat him to death after he ran out of bullets.
There is a point where everyone snaps and loses all fear.
You guys have a lot of guns in civilian hands. It is a matter of time until someone throws their life away and kills a few men hiding behind badges.
I was thinking the other day that if the median decline in quality of life had taken place over a handful of years vs several generations, the fightback would have still been there. The slow decline seems to have just sapped all will, belief, and even values.
How dense are you?
What does density have to do with anything?
Here's a hint: it's (enlightened centrist/white moderate) liberals, not lefties, who are anti-gun.
It's absolutely not just them on the left that want to restrict guns.
It's pretty much not the left at all, only liberals. I mean, sure, there are a few (delusional/suicidal) left pacifists like hippies and whatnot, but "gun control" people are almost universally centrist authoritarians.
That's true, but leftists know that since everybody else has one, I should too. That unicorns and rainbows version of liberalism is what gets you disappeared.
I don't see the need for labels in this regard. Right now, people of all types and backgrounds are picking up firearrns. Many people who were previously opposed are now seeing the need.
It's true tho
people who are "super to the left" might be against guns, probably not moderate dems, or closer to center right.
That's usually not how it goes though. The famous quote goes, "If you go far enough left, you get your guns back." Though the further I engage with those far leftists the more I dislike their means to get to their end. At least IMO, American center to mild left is pretty anti-gun.