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They also conducted armed patrols in predominantly black neighborhoods as overt public safety and visual deterrence to prevent racist cops from oppressing minorities.
If you did this today, it would work well because it would deter ICE from randomly detaining brown people, since fascists have small dicks and are cowards.
Too bad democrats and Lefties don't own any guns, and are toothless.
Edit: fun fact, black people owning guns, and the Black Panther party, is the primary reason Republicans backed by the NRA, passed gun restriction laws across the country. They don't want you to own them, and you limp ballsacks agreed with them. Now all we can do is wave signs and waggle fingers at protests. Fascists only respect violence.
Why are we discussing fash genitals? They give us so much else to attack, why are you making me think about their penis?
very insightful to use genital insults. that makes the point far better and makes me insecure so ill go ahead and agree to be the good one and not the disagreeing genital-metaphor /s
I honestly don't understand where this idea that we don't have guns comes from. Sure, i don't have a wall full, but I've only got two hands.
Okay but what gun do you use the next day, while those two are at the cleaners?
What about your skull gun? The holdout you keep in your shoe? Or your ornamental gun rack huns to show how many guns you have to everyone who sees your car?
Two just isnt enough.
Decades of propaganda intentionally conflating the inherently right-wing, neoliberal establishment as being left-wing.
we've got some years of neoliberal 2a infringements to live down. you're right, but there's a reason cops feel way more comfortable doing no-knock raids and shooting into black people's homes than Bradleigh McGoatfucker's trailer
And that reason is systemic racism.
Well, that and ruby ridge, waco, oklahoma city. Youll notice after tjose three, enforcement on the right basically stopped cold.
To the point an anti abortion terrorist straight up bombed the 96 olympics and they did nothing for years, while he kept bombing clinics.
Turns out violence does in fact work.
fun fact, they had a lot of teenagers joining who were insistent on being given access to a gun. the older cadres would refuse to hand them a gun until they were up to date on their reading material and had proven themselves by doing exemplary fieldwork over a sustained period of time.
buying a gun by itself won't do anything but act as a trophy. the reason their public carry campaign had profound impacts was because they organized their communities to act as a united front first.
also the most radical chapters knew how to respect their own autonomy over the national leadership's sometimes nonsensical dictats. horizontal organizing and direct action gets the job done.