The alternative being?
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taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoGuns are pretty much giving the government the excuse to just shoot you as a crazy gun nut (or extremist group,…) and shoot you without any morale repercussions in the people they use to do so and without any PR nightmare in the greater population for them.
theblips@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Non-violent protests in large numbers would be one option. It is much harder to get the military or police to shoot a crowd of a few tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, especially when it is people from their own communities. And when you do it anyway you have a very hard time suppressing it in your and the international media.
theblips@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What do non-violent “protests” do? Why would police ever really try to supress them if they don’t serve any purpose other than virtue signalling? Do you protesters expect Trump to stop ICE raids because “wow, I guess these signs with me drawn as a pig are really making me think”, or MAGA supporters to stop voting for him because you wasted your sunday out in the sun walking around?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What do shootings do? Do you genuinely believe a couple of people with handguns or rifles are going to achieve anything at all?
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
You will still be shot and abducted. It will not be any harder for the cops.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They’re already abducting and deporting academics on the flimsiest justifications based off social media posts disparaging Trump and/or Elon. We’re past the point that they need to label people something as heavy as gun nut to justify their actions.