According to those on the right he should be commended for open carrying an AR-15 for his own protection against those seeking to harm him.
In other words, this is ok:
But for some unknown reason, this is not ok:
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I dont know whether to go with
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Yeah, what could the difference be? Just can’t quite figure it out…
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Or some armed female citizens outside clinics might feel threatened by protestors trying to deny them healthcare (like say, pregnancy termination)…
Wut?
Why speculate like that about some shit that just ain’t gonna happen?
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Scary shit! But sadly normal in rural Florida, especially Brevard county.
Those folks will probably be headed down to the local Confederate bar to get super trashed shortly.
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Yeah, we get some shooting around where I am too (surban, almost ex-urban ATL)… although where I am isn’t particularly Confederate (it’s Black majority)… but it’s rural enough to have some hunter types.
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This only applies to one of those sides, re: getting off scot free.
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We’re fucked aren’t we?
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?? Is that a whataboutery bs not even thought through?
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This is true, but these days many white people are uncomfortable about lynchings (versus the “good old days” when they were a family outing - which I guess what happened to Arbery essentially was).
I’m guessing that it’s just easier for many white people to defend what Rittenhouse did (even though everything that happened was entirely avoidable and his fault) as “killing angry protesters threatening your life”. It’s not nearly as overt as “chasing down a Black man in your truck and shooting them with a shotgun under the guise of a ‘citizens arrest’”.
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It worked out pretty well for the Black Panthers, until CA enacted gun laws to put a stop to such tactics.
Maybe I’ve been radicalized by the likes of Michael Harriot and Elie Mystal, but I don’t have that much faith in white Americans. It takes more than “uncomfortable” to change things and far too often that discomfort has less to do with the injustices witnessed than their own unwillingness to change anything about their own thoughts or actions.
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As one of those, I fully agree with this statement. And Harriot and Mystal are national treasures that speak the truth unflinchingly.
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Remembering the victims:
Linked article:
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Sadly probably not. But armed leftist presence as a deterrent to racist violence (for example) is a pretty well proven tactic.
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I have to believe that some of the issue here is the general public’s complete ignorance on what the rules are for participating in a jury and deciding a verdict, which is obviously helped by the way that judges lie to juror’s faces when instructing them on how decisions are to be made.
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Or in this case providing extensive and convoluted instructions making it even less likely there will be a guilty verdict.
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“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
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Yeah, well, if the Ahmaud Arbery verdict is also not guilty, we’ll know that even overt white vigilantism is now the law of the land.
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