am curious about your experience, would you mind telling us a little bit about where and when you witnessed violence, and give a few details about how this pushed you to take self defence more seriously
Sure. Watched a man dragged out of his car and almost beat to death testing to get into our condo building in Chicago.
I watched building burning from my deck.
I watched mobs destroy the train station, loop and west loop.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Fucking horrible man. Was that in 1967?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That was in 2020.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Ok. I see we are getting a little off topic here but you should know that when you say “summer of love” without context, that could be taken to mean 1967 when droves of hippies descended on San Francisco.
Anyway again, I’m sorry you had to witness that. It is a shame that so much anger and violence erupted after the brutal murder of George Floyd by registered republican police thug Derek Chauvin. The world needs less violence, not more.
Perhaps if more black folks had guns, then it would no longer be true that, according to the [British Medical Journal],(bmj.com/…/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black…) “Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than 3 times as high as in Whites.” Maybe then such riots could be a thing of the past.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Unarmed doesn’t mean they are not dangerous.
Also you should watch the real evidence of the trial. I doubt it’d change your mind but I did post the link to it. The media lied to you.
I agree the world needs less violence. Why I vote against democrats.
I was in law enforcement and the military. I’ve never seen anything more violent than a democrat.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Also you should be aware how statistics really break out. Based on time data, blacks are less likely to be Killed than white people.
bostonglobe.com/…/statistical-paradox-police-kill…