Fair enough. But…
I try not to use straw man arguments and if I did, I apologize. I’m clearly a minority ITT who supports 2A, so it’s hard not to resort to “standard shit” when I’m getting the “standard shit” counter arguments slung at me from all sides. I’ve decided to only respond to reasonable points and ignore the intellectually void responses like jawax13, kerowo, and other recent ones
In short, I agree there is a gun problem in this country. No one wants lunatics getting their hands on semi-automatic rifles and shooting up a school, movie, mall, etc. It’s tragic and I’m on record for whatever reforms necessary to keep firearms out of a lunatic’s hands, be it background checks, waiting periods, tests, licensing, etc. But as tragic as those incidents are, we all know why James Holmes shot up a movie theater. He’s severely mentally disturbed. But what I find it ever so much more tragic is when minorities get murdered in plain sight at the hands of ostensibly stable trained law enforcement officers! So I wanna talk about THIS first! Why isn’t this in the gun thread? Does anyone seriously think that if it weren’t for cops having overwhelming firepower George Floyd might be alive right now? And even if you disagree, don’t you think there’s at least more of a chance that an angry, potentially violent crowd could’ve that would’ve caused the officers to expedite whatever the fuck they were doing to him so the fuckhead pig with his knee on his neck would’ve eased up sooner?
@NotBruceZ Sorta agree. Mobs can be good in defeating tyranny, but usually don’t quite do the trick. After Anthony Lamar Smith’s killer got off protests erupted, but here we still are… What I’m advocating for more than anything else, is police accountability. That can’t happen under a corrupt judicial system that literally allows police get away with murder while locking up minorities and the poor for years over drugs. So until that changes the ONLY other deterrent I know is an armed populace