• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Got my CCW after trump won in 2016, didn’t end up needing it

    Got plates after this one, I’m not going to be a protest without it and a rifle.

    It sounds like an escalation, but a show of force prevents a lot of violence, and it works especially well on the people we’re protesting. Like, that’s not a dig. Due to brain differences it’s harder to win over the right by appealing to empathy or facts and logic.

    Everyone that works on is already mostly on our side.

    What works on conservatives is fear of immediate consequences. You think a trumpet would drive into protesters when a dozen would actually open fire and make them legit “fear for their lives”?

    Hell, they overrun the Capitol because cops just had Glocks and riot gear…

    These days a protest ain’t safe unless people are posted up.

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      11 hours ago

      I always believed in the 2A, though up to now i never owned one, don’t hunt game, and owning a gun is an extra responsibility i didn’t feel the need to take on. Though this has changed recently as i am a proud yet reluctant owner of an SFAR. I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges.

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        9 hours ago

        I come from hillbillies, so technically I owned a rifle and a shotgun before I was ever born.

        But I never went thru the hassle of getting a CCW and small pistol to carry.

        But shits fucking crazy these days. Like I’ve lived in some rough areas, and had plenty of people show me their gun as intimidation since I was a punk teenager. But I was never seriously worried about getting shot, people had something to lose and I was never doing something that was worth it.

        Nowadays people with a good job and family are just firing off over incredibly minor shit.

        Everyone is just willing to throw it all away over nothing.

        I really think we’re gonna find out COVID caused similar issues to lead poisoning even among minor cases with no symptoms. People just have no chill, and everyone and their mother is strapped here now.

        I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges

        You really don’t need it. Tear gas in an open environment is not bad, you move 10 feet away for a few minutes.

        People will tell you tennis rackets is the move, but that could lead to serious charges if used to hit one back at cops.

        What you need is buckets. They fire a can, you cap it. If you do have to retreat, someone will likely (completely on accident and without any malice) knock it over releasing the tear gas and slowing the cops.

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          7 hours ago

          I was in the military, and i had one. Seemed like a thing to get, and it couldn’t hurt. You are right about the buckets, i have seen those work well in protests. The police had to resort to shooting protestors in the face with the grenades instead, blew someones eye out of their skull.

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        9 hours ago

        Shooting can absolutely be fun - not just a tool to fight oppression. “Can I shoot something smaller and further away?” is a question you can keep asking yourself!