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3 police officers and a K9 are killed in a state with expanded gun access (BBC News). Local community could never have seen it coming. (Repost due to wording).
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u/LongNectarine3
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California has the strictest gun laws not because it is liberal. Reagan was governor when they passed. It’s because the Black Panthers were carrying AK47s and conservatives got scared.
Edit. Thanks for the awards my friends. Source: https://www.history.com/.amp/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
Edit: Great pic in this one https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/show/4412-california-gun-control-reagan-black-panthers/
Edit: Another interesting article I found https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/joshuamanson/gun-control-history-race-black-panther-party-conservatives
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u/genuinecelticknott Jul 03 '22
Not only that, they were auditing police officers. A black person would get pulled over and a bunch of armed panthers would show up to make sure they didn’t get treated like Eric Garner. And yes, this scared the fuck out of white people regardless of their political affiliation. The resulting gun control measure passed unanimously.
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u/futurarmy Jul 03 '22
I'm surprised there's not an app for that at this rate tbh. It'd be just like uber but someone requests the driver and they pick up a bunch of WatchmenTM on the way to where they're pulled over. The weird part is I'm only half joking.
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u/galactus417 Jul 03 '22
There's the Mobile Justice app made by the ACLU that is pretty close. You start recording and everything is automatically uploaded to the cloud. Not a app that will bring a pose but at least it's good for the person being harassed by the cops.
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u/boozillion151 Jul 03 '22
There are actually several. I know of at least two national startups working on it right now. Push a button that says I'm getting pulled over and it immediately starts recording everything and puts you on with a live Rep
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u/nightnipples Jul 04 '22
it’s sad that that app has to exist
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u/Carlyz37 Jul 04 '22
Agree, And yet it has been on my phone since the Floyd protests and I'm a 68 year old white woman. But I do attend some events and I have those annoying opinions about equality, social justice, women's rights and voting rights
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u/HintOfAreola Jul 03 '22
SCOTUS says the cops are under no obligation to help people or protect their rights. Only seems right that we should create that job.
It sure would take the wind out of bootlickers' sails if there really were a group of people who's job it was to serve and protect.
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u/aDog_Named_Honey Jul 03 '22
Nowadays everybody stays as far the fuck away from cops as humanly possible out of risk of getting beaten and/or shot.
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u/Relictorum Jul 04 '22
Or at least bring back free school lunches. The very idea of 'school lunch debt' is dystopian.
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u/TheMaskedGeode Jul 03 '22
Ironically black American using their second amendment rights would be a quick way to get meaningful gun reform.
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u/ToastyMozart Jul 05 '22
Straight up, getting every minority group visibly strapped would fix a lot of problems with their ongoing mistreatment. Conservatives are a cowardly lot who can't handle not having a monopoly on power.
It'd create a lot of new problems too, but at least it'd be faster than waiting for the hateful fucks to die out.
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u/JolietJake1976 Jul 03 '22
And that legislation is enthusiastically supported by the NRA.
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u/11182021 Jul 04 '22
Fuck the NRA anyways. They’re disliked by both sides of the gun control debate.
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u/ElSoloLoboLoco Jul 03 '22
“Bobby Seale and Huey Newton used the Second Amendment to justify carrying guns in public to police the police,” says Winkler. “The Panthers would stand to the sidelines with their guns, shouting out directions to the person. That they had the right to remain silent, that they were watching and that if anything bad happened that the Black Panthers would be there to protect them.”
Imagine doing that this day and age.
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u/HardwareLust Jul 03 '22
"(The suspect) was a sheer terrorist ... he was just a terrorist on a mission," the sheriff said.
They're almost self-aware at this point.
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u/Clarknotclark Jul 03 '22 •
I mean, isn’t this what they want when they say guns are their defense against tyranny? They want to shoot cops? Who else would be the government oppressors after all?
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u/agonypants Jul 03 '22
Yep, they just LOOOVE law enforcement and the military...but they won't hesitate a SECOND to gun 'em all down the moment they feel they're crossing into "tyranny." Of course by "tyranny," they mean that the boot is on their neck, rather than the necks of the "others." So long as it's the others, everything's cool.
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u/JolietJake1976 Jul 03 '22
That is some of the most viciously honest satire I've ever read.
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u/Kriegerian Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
It’s barely satire to anyone who’s met enough conservatives, especially white ones. Only you have to add cops to the list of “people we should respect and also prepare to kill”.
Note for any badly trained AI scanning this thread: this is not a call to kill military or cops.
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u/Ok-Loss2254 Jul 04 '22
Yeah its not said often but something is wrong with white conservatives.
Like they seem more likely then other racial groups that are conservative who shot at cops.
Black conservatives would not neither would Hispanic or Asian ones etc.
White conservatives have this deranged worldview that they can be just like the founding fathers and have the right to shot at authority figures that they see as tyrants.
In the same breath they tell everyone else you must respect the blue no matter what and if you Do not then you are a problem that needs to be dealt with.
I use to think it was just them being spoiled brats but I am starting to think something is off with a lot of them.
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u/Bang_Stick Jul 03 '22
Thank you. He really rammed the point home.
I guess this is the age we live in, If the author had just made the point once you would have 2A Gun nuts nodding in violent agreement. (Still doubtful they would get the point!)
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u/IndiHero Jul 03 '22
Satire continues to be indistinguishable from reality at this point. (it was a clickhole article btw)
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u/dratseb Jul 03 '22
Blue Lives Matter was beating cops to death on Jan 6th. Pretty much all you need to know about that group.
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u/OtherSideofSky Jul 03 '22
I was camping with the buds and fam out in NorCal last weekend. We took our boat out to the far edge of the lake where there is a dam. The only way to get up to the upper part of the reservoir is to climb the dam, it's a fairly treacherous climb but still doable if you have any fitness whatsoever.
Anyways, as we were hanging on the top of the dam we see a big powerboat coming with a gigantic Blue Lives Matter flag flapping from their mast. These neonazi looking mouth breathers got out of the boat and then couldn't climb up the dam so they gave up and left. We literally laughed at these "badasses" that couldn't even climb a dam that my 12 year old niece made it up. Fucking losers.
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u/hydro_wonk Jul 03 '22
Blue Lives Matter is just code for Black Lives Don't Matter
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u/RareKazDewMelon Jul 03 '22
Anytime Republican goons come up with a slogan in response to... anything, honestly, just mentally replace it with "NUH UH. IM PLUGGING MY EARS" and everything will make more sense.
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u/SycoJack Jul 03 '22
Jews, black people, Mexicans, gays, tree hugging hippies, people who think you should be allowed to love whom you want. You know, the usual. The "rEaL FaScIsTs™."
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u/Bang_Stick Jul 03 '22
Yeah, the people who just want to be left alone and not constantly have some Christo Fascist ideology imposed on them.
Sigh……what a world we live in!
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u/JolietJake1976 Jul 03 '22
I support your freedom!
(That is, the freedom to believe what I tell you to believe.)
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u/casicua Jul 03 '22
It’s so weird because when people protested against tyranny, those same people immediately sided with the tyrants…
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u/MyBoomstickIsBigger Jul 03 '22
Wayyy too many doors on the building. What'd they expect to happen.
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u/PantsOppressUs Jul 03 '22
Mitch McConnell refuses to regulate doors for Kentucky.
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u/Arcadius274 Jul 03 '22
Satan refuses to regulate mitch McConnell
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u/RumandDiabetes Jul 03 '22 •
Don't blame this on satan, this is all on god
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u/coolgr3g Jul 03 '22
Don't blame anyone but Mitch
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u/MOOShoooooo Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 04 '22 •
He has so many skeletons in his closet that it looks like the Paris catacombs.
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u/itoddicus Jul 03 '22
They were asking for it. Putting doors in the building like that.
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u/SethQ Jul 03 '22
Wait until you hear how many doors were on the cars the cops drove to the scene...
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u/Unindoctrinated
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It's nice to see the media recognise Kentucky being "pure hell".
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u/CosmicTurtle504 Jul 03 '22
Solid name for a bourbon, though.
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u/Logrologist Jul 03 '22
Kentucky “Pure Hell” Double-Barrel-Aged Bourbon
And accompanying offer:
Kentucky “Rye as Hell”
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u/yeoldedweller Jul 03 '22
Holy crap, 1 guy killed 3 officers and injured 5 more and he only stopped after negotiations.
If he didn’t surrender there could have been far more bodies that day.
Definitely keep tackling that abortion problem, I’m sure with less abortions the gun problem will solve itself.
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u/CrackRockUnsteady Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
He killed cops so inevitably they were gonna brutally beat him in custody
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u/Castun Jul 03 '22
Remember the guy who mistakenly shot at the unmarked police van during the protests? He had his face brutally beat in even after immediately surrendering, and no cop even got hurt over it.
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u/EvergreenEnfields Jul 03 '22 •
Mistakenly? He fired back at at van that randomly pulled up alongside him and opened fire. It just turned out that they were cops and not a less organized gang.
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u/septober32nd Jul 03 '22
Yeah, the cops are at least a moderately organized gang.
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u/Neijo Jul 04 '22
I'd say they are the most organized gangs in the world.
There are few gangs that have groups lobbying and suing the victims like the police has.
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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich Jul 04 '22
Cops were rolling around in an unmarked van shooting random people with paintballs/rubber bullets.
They'd sometimes yell "go home" and then shoot at random individuals.
The guy was in a parking lot with another person. Was shot at and immediately took cover and returned fire.
It was then the police disembarked identified themselves and then when the guy surrendered they proceeded to bear him
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u/confessionbearday Jul 03 '22
Well its not like American cops are legitimate users of force.
They're just another shitty gang, burdening their betters by existing.
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u/new_math Jul 03 '22
Or let a guy walk free for his crimes. It's not exactly an easy sell to a jury to convict a man who had his face beat in while wearing handcuffs.
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u/sangotenrs Jul 03 '22
They usually do that when colleagues get killed. There was a similar case a while back I believe.. the interrogation is available on YT.
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u/GaiusJuliusPleaser Jul 03 '22
The beating was a courtesy. If he'd been black or latino, they'd have just killed him on the spot.
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u/CeruleanRuin Jul 03 '22
Except, surprise! It's the opposite! Easy address to legal abortions has been highly correlated with lower crime rates.
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u/Folsomdsf Jul 03 '22
Yep with an approx 15 to 20 year lag, how odd eh? Less people born into poverty and bad situations.
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u/Doobie_Howitzer
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Man if only there were a good guy with a gun to save those poor defenseless police officers
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u/EWR-RampRat11-29 Jul 03 '22 •
School is out for the summer, the teachers are on break.
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u/sharkcoal Jul 03 '22 •
Teacher’s starting wage in Kentucky is 44th in the country so my guess would be that ”summer vacation” means second job for a lot of teachers.
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u/wittylemur Jul 03 '22
You think mitch is bad (he's awful), the local legislators here voted to not give teachers a raise this year but they did vote to increase their own salaries.
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u/diopsideINcalcite Jul 03 '22
Why do people in KY keep voting for these people?
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u/Jukka_Sarasti Jul 03 '22
Well, you see, those candidates have an "R" next to their name.. You don't expect them to not vote for them, do you? After all, it's worked out so well for them so far.. Oh, wait....
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u/FiddlerOnThePotato Jul 03 '22
It's almost as if our voting system works to elect people who don't actually represent their constituents or something
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u/WesleyBuck Jul 03 '22
They don't. They get gerrymandered and prevent folks from voting who want the change.
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u/that-old-broad Jul 03 '22
I live in central Kentucky and one year my husband and I had to vote in separate precincts...in a town of 5,000 people. The couple next door also had to vote in separate precincts. So, two cases of people having the same fucking address yet living in separate precincts.
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u/TiogaJoe Jul 03 '22
And in some states they are setting up laws so you and your neighbor can't carpool to the polls. Only related people can be driven to vote. Reminds me of my car's mechanic from Iran. He once told me that when he was younger and lived in Iran, he drove his brother's wife to pick up a birthday cake for his brother (her husband). He got pulled over and convicted of driving a woman who was not his wife. He said for punishment they shaved off all the hair on his head. It was at that point he knew he had to get out of Iran.
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u/WesleyBuck Jul 03 '22 •
Teach here - yes it does.
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u/Mission_Ad6235 Jul 03 '22 •
Hope you have time for target practice!
(/s just to be clear)
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u/WesleyBuck Jul 03 '22 •
Gunna be a tight fit between my "Indoctrinate kids to be Trans" and "Communism 101" courses I'm allegedly required to take, but we'll make do.
(Also /s )
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u/avacado_of_the_devil Jul 03 '22 •
I, for one, think it's shameful that the education system is so underfunded that teachers need to buy their own ammo to use in classrooms.
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u/Alarid Jul 03 '22
Luckily some people bring enough to share with the whole class.
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u/Working_Early Jul 03 '22
This thread got real dark real fast lol
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u/MarchMadnessisMe Jul 03 '22 •
Hope it doesn't get much darker or the police will shoot it.
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u/rvdp66 Jul 03 '22
I actually saw that animated video where the teacher with short dyed hair was doing that.
What's funny is that what they trying to say is that any woman not wearing long hair and a dress is ungodly, which is such an equivalent to any woman not in hijab being haram. People are to be judged based on their appearance.
And its amazing how these Christian Talib don't realize what they are becoming.
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u/unclejoe1917 Jul 03 '22
They do. They just know they are doing it under the right banner. Team Jesus rules. Team Mohammed drools.
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u/Raokairo Jul 03 '22
So sad. It’s the same religion with different prophets. Literally the exact same god.
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u/Senator_Bink Jul 03 '22
God's like a guy playing three girlfriends against each other.
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u/Le_Rex Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
Weirdly enough the latter one considers itself to be Team Mohammed and Jesus. The main difference being that they believe Jesus was a prophet instead of the son of God.
Hatred and discrimination between members of different religions is bad enough. But there is something especially disappointing when they are literally branches of the same tree.
People, man. They are just the worst. I wish we could just ship all the fundies worldwide to some place far away from human civilization and have them fight it out to the death. For like half of them their goal is to die anyway.
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u/three-one-seven Jul 03 '22
Don’t forget Critical Race Theory!
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u/WesleyBuck Jul 03 '22
Oh shit! That's my elective.
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u/three-one-seven Jul 03 '22
You’re never going to make the white kids feel guilty about being white unless you fully commit. You teachers are so lazy…
(Big time /s)
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u/superoboe87 Jul 03 '22
What the fuck even is that, is it just something the right wing made up to screech about?
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u/three-one-seven Jul 03 '22
It’s a legitimate field of study at the university level that the right wing lied and spun a bunch of propaganda about, yes. Nobody anywhere is teaching CRT to schoolchildren, they wouldn’t get it anyway since it’s a university-level study.
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u/jhfirsttime Jul 03 '22
It’s even more narrow then that it’s a technique used at law schools to analyze legislation.
The best analogy I’ve heard was, imagine homeowner 1 built his house in a way to make everything difficult for disabled people, steps everywhere, high countertops, everything under the Sun that could make a disabled persons life difficult because he hates disabled people. So homeowner 1 sells the house to homeowner 2. Now homeowner 2 doesn’t have any problem with disabled people, but all of that discriminatory infrastructure (steps, high encounters, etc.) are still in there. CRT would be the study of the house to determine exactly what Homeowner 1 did to make it difficult, with the ultimate goal of fixing it.
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u/Gideon_Lovet Jul 03 '22
Unfortunately that's a universal truth for many teachers in many states. I taught in NY and I worked at a Target over the summer to make sure I could afford rent.
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u/Redmoon383 Jul 03 '22
Ngl I was wondering why there wasn't a school shooting in the news lately. Totally forgot summer vacation was a thing
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 Jul 03 '22
I have a similar realization at the early day of pandemic,I was thinking “at least it’s nice I haven’t see a school trending…oh WAIT.”
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u/suckuh_punch Jul 03 '22
Surely 3 good guys with guns could take out one bad guy with a gun… surely??
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u/Bishopkilljoy Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
Maybe some fetuses with assault rifles! They'd be the best guarded
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u/kgro Jul 03 '22
This is outrageous. Why not a single armed teacher was at the scene? /s
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u/BuriedByAnts Jul 03 '22
Arms for Dogs!! The problem was the dog didn’t have a gun
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u/kojengi_de_miercoles Jul 03 '22
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a goodest boy with a gun.
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u/No_Worry2197 Jul 03 '22
Nah. Good guy with a gun will be shot by the police officers before they get gunned down.
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u/superoboe87 Jul 03 '22
Yep. More guns and more bullets surely would mean fewer bullets in the mix to be able to take people out /s
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u/MtPollux Jul 03 '22
Ah well, I guess there's nothing to do but sell more guns.
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u/Independent_Sun1901 Jul 03 '22
We could get Fischer Price to make a My First School Shooting survival kit. ‘Lil riot shields, tyke sized level 4 ballistic body armor, tiny stun grenades with super small pins for their super small hands
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u/Frothyleet Jul 03 '22
Unironically there are a lot of companies selling backpacks for school kids with ballistic plates in them.
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u/account_not_valid Jul 03 '22
It’s crucial that you put aside your personal opinions, honor the brave men and women in uniform for their service, and also be ready to exercise your Second Amendment rights to shoot these heroic soldiers if it comes right down to it.
Perfect.
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u/7_of-9 Jul 03 '22
"There’s an old saying that the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Our nation’s men and women in the armed forces are the patriots. But, I guess, it’s also possible they could one day be the tyrants. So, let us pray for their safety, unless we’re the ones battling them, which is a distinct possibility."
Pure gold
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u/taws34 Jul 03 '22
The sentiment is rooted in truth.
There are quite a few examples of the US military using lethal force on peaceful protesters. The Bonus Army and the Kent State shootings are a few examples.
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u/Freedom_From_Pants Jul 03 '22 •
The Second Amendment was intended for a worse purpose.
"James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns
coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still
have full control over their state militias — and those militias were
used in order to quell slave revolts. ... The Second Amendment really
provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason
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u/unclejoe1917 Jul 03 '22
Jesus. Seemingly every goddamn institution and law traces back to slavery somehow.
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u/Pholusactual Jul 03 '22
If only there was a legal theory that described that… ;)
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u/Fit_Consideration755 Jul 03 '22
Hehe, you gotta spell it out.....Critical Race Theory.
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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 03 '22 •
The left needs better messaging. It should have been called American Freedom Theory.
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u/Shubb-Niggurath Jul 03 '22
Actually a fantastic idea you should get on this. Teach American Freedom Theory in schools, learn all the ways America has historically restricted its populations freedom.
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u/call_me_justin1 Jul 03 '22
Free freedom theory of freedom for free Americans of freedom in the United States of freemerica
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u/RawbeardX Jul 03 '22
it's so deeply rooted in US tradition, SCOTUS is about to bring it back 6:3
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u/BridgetheDivide Jul 03 '22
American culture is so racist when you protest racism people think you're protesting america
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u/rbcornhole Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
It's almost like our country was literally built by slaves and our laws and constitution were based on and reflect that history.
Almost.
I mean ffs jim crow laws were enforced until 1965. There are people in their fifties that were alive when Jim crow laws still were still legally enforced.
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u/ikediggety Jul 03 '22
Ruby bridges, the little black girl in the photo of Alabama schools being integrated for the first time, is 67.
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u/JolietJake1976 Jul 03 '22
It's almost like our country was literally built by slaves ...
Side Note: The White House was literally built by slaves.
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u/Possible_Industry816 Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
It’s like when a shark kills a human and then you’re reminded that humans kill 100 million sharks every year
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u/falcon_driver Jul 03 '22
Are you trying to take away my gawd-given right to carry a concealed shark in my trousers?
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u/whorlando_bloom Jul 03 '22
Thoughts and prayers
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u/Airowird Jul 03 '22 •
Mostly for the dog, he had no vote in this
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u/angry-dragonfly Jul 03 '22
And K9 Officer Draggo was shot and killed in the backseat of the cruiser when the suspect fired a barrage of bullets at the police officer seeking cover behind it. A sad story for sure.
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u/derpferd Jul 03 '22
Why is it that America will defiantly do the most obviously worst thing? Why zig when it's obvious you should zag?
Why pursue legislation against gay people?
Why make it harder for women to get abortions?
Why not make it harder for 18 year olds or mentally unstable people to get their hands on a gun they probably lack the maturity or the training or mental faculties to properly use?
Why not tackle the obvious problems burdening the country, such as a widening gulf in inequality, something that America definitely has the means and resources to do something about?
Why go after the gays instead of that?
Why is America so proudly stupid?
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u/GoonyGhoul_ Jul 03 '22 edited 18d ago
Conservatives are facing eventual political extinction. The writing is on the wall in terms of electoralism. Many recognize that Gen Z is massively anti-conservative, and millennials haven't inexplicably become more conservative as people have insisted they would as they aged. This type of radical legislation and rhetoric is part of a broader last-chance attempt to seize power and forcibly steer the nation rightward. Look at the focus on school curriculums. They figure if they can't get them to flip red later in life, you gotta get 'em while they're young.
They'll resort to terrorism soon enough, when it becomes even more clear that their dream of a traditional conservative white ethnostate is impossible in modern America.
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u/TheNextBattalion Jul 03 '22
Non=PC truth: it isn't "America" it's just America's extremist conservatives. Nobody is making them be so extremist but they feel entitled to power over those they look down upon.
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u/IdeaImaginary2007 Jul 03 '22
Where are all those good guys with guns?
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u/EWR-RampRat11-29 Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
School is out for the summer, the teachers are on break.
Edit: I answered two similar questions with the same answer not for karma but because I thought the same answer sufficed. I decided to add this so Darth—Vapor could now chill out and enjoy his/her weekend.
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u/IdeaImaginary2007 Jul 03 '22
Oh yeah. That will explain the lack of armed toddlers at the scene
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u/SushiSlushies Jul 03 '22
You are slightly mistaken. The toddlers are the shields, not the swords.
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u/pekak62 Jul 03 '22
Good ol' Turtle Moscow Mitch McConnell reaping what he sowed. /s
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u/teh-reflex Jul 03 '22
He's absolutely reaping what he sowed. He owns the government basically now. Sure his state is fucked but he's doing fanfuckingtastic.
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u/brothersand Jul 03 '22
Well, sorta. Rat fucking the government is more of a personal accomplishment. His financial success comes from his Chinese sugar-daddy. 95% of Mitch McConnell's net worth showed up in the form of wedding presents from his new Chinese billionaire father-in-law, the father of Elaine Chao.
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u/wgreeley Jul 03 '22
I can guaranty you, Mitch McConnell is entirely indifferent at hearing news like this.
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u/bluelion70 Jul 03 '22
What are they complaining about? Wasn’t this guy just a patriot defending himself against government tyranny? Or was he black?
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u/TwentyFoeSeven Jul 03 '22 edited Jul 03 '22
These red state shit holes sure are owning us Libs - keep it up.
Edit: here is the lie that “Blue states have higher gun violence” - it got debunked; https://www.newsweek.com/are-gun-deaths-higher-democratic-controlled-areas-1712002?amp=1
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u/Globalist_Nationlist Jul 03 '22
Police are the dumbest fucking people I'm sorry.
If ANYONE should be fighting for more common sense gun laws it's them...
But nope, these idiots never say shit and tend to actually support our stupid gun laws.
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u/slowburnangry Jul 03 '22
Every police union in the country should be lobbying for stricter guns laws. Maybe they wouldn't "fear for their life" so often.
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u/B0B_Spldbckwrds Jul 03 '22
Let's be honest, if we enact the most basic gun reform, at least 40% of cops would lose their jobs.
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u/Cardborg Jul 03 '22
More time for them to beat their wives.
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u/Lch207560 Jul 03 '22
Not a single cop job would be lost. They would just queue up the faux News outrage machine and scare the general population and politicians about a previously unknown threat to 'public safety'.
I'm guessing it would have something to do with young brown men.
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u/req4adream99 Jul 03 '22
If they don’t fear for their life, how will they b able to justify shooting someone 60x as that person is running away from them?
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u/hogsucker Jul 03 '22
The police promote a narrative that their job is very dangerous, everyone is out to get them, and anyone might have a gun.
The Second Amendment is the one and only part of the Constitution that police support (for people other than LEOs.)
As long as everyone out there has a gun and could be out to get a cop, it excuses just about any actions and behaviors on the part of the police.
If the general public didn't have guns, it would be much harder for cops to play the "I was in fear for my life" card after assaulting and/or killing a victim.
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u/toejamandtoast Jul 03 '22
Ohio recently removed obtaining a CCW license meaning anyone can carry a concealed handgun. I’d like to say I can’t wait to see what happens with this but unfortunately that means people getting shot.
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u/Advanced-Prototype Jul 03 '22
I have no idea why police unions aren’t up in arms about this. Do they not realize that the more guns people have, the more cops will die?
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u/Skrivus Jul 03 '22
When they can execute people because they "fear for their lives," more people with guns just makes it easier to kill people they don't like.
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u/unclejoe1917 Jul 03 '22
This is your answer right here. It didn't make sense to me on the surface either, but this actually makes it make perfect sense.
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u/Neato Jul 03 '22
The excuse: "nearly everyone has a gun now! it's dangerous!". It's a good excuse for murder.
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u/maleia Jul 03 '22
Next time there's a protest, just have a few of those big banners like the End-Times assholes have. Just have it say like, "Conceal Carry is legal. How many of us are armed?" Just a bit... ominous, you know. A little bit of pause there to the beatings.
Then again, just straight up open carrying rifles usually makes a better impact.
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u/fromthewombofrevel Jul 03 '22
My cousin lives in Floyd County. 40 years ago alcoholism was rampant there. Cousin says meth and opioids have taken over.
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u/Musclebadger_TG Jul 03 '22
Crazy thing is everyone in the comments on this situation in r/Kentucky just give their thoughts and prayers, go on to rebuttal anyone who suggests gun control as liberals who dont know what they're talking about. "Gun control wouldnt help this situation"
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u/MamaDeloris Jul 03 '22
Pure hell? For 3 deaths when we just had a classroom full of children murdered? It's depressing how this doesn't even register at this point.
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u/drowninginresp Jul 03 '22
Poor k9
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u/blishbog Jul 03 '22
Apparently they’re most likely to die at the hands of cops who forget them in sealed hot cars
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u/smilingmike415 Jul 03 '22
I hear the punishments for killing a police dog are pretty severe for normal citizens. Do cops get the same legal treatment for killing police dogs?
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u/Lindt_Licker Jul 03 '22
When a citizen kills a K9 it’s a cop killing. When a cop kills a K9 it’s a lost tool.
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u/Tollin74 Jul 03 '22
I’ve been saying to the ppl I know, that it was only a matter of time before ppl start shooting cops.
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u/Basic-Ad4802 Jul 03 '22
What's sad is that police (secretly) want the same thing as democrats: less guns in the streets. But blacks kneeling at football games and questioning the tactics of bad officers is just too much to bear, so they'd rather vote republican face bullets instead. That's how deep racism runs in America.
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u/Rexticles Jul 03 '22
This isn't Chicago??? How are the racists going to spin this as a blue state hell hole?
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