The federal government trying to figure out why federal agents keep murdering US citizens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLfAf8oHrMo

Oh yeah, because surely they wouldn’t escalate to murdering people in the street anyways…

Yep, this is what happens when authoritarians don’t think you have a gun.

Peretti was getting pistol whipped before they saw his gun.

If he had a rifle instead, they wouldn’t have escalated to violence because that’s a visual deterrent. By the time they knew he was carrying a CCW they’d already escalated past the point they felt they could walk away. It’s not a visual deterrent to prevent conflict, it can only be used for deadly force during a conflict.

Shit had to get bad enough for the average American for the average voter to realize shits broken.

It took the Great Depression to get FDR elected, and the government was killing protesters in the streets then too.

Hell, a giant group of armed veterans were living at the Washington monument during the election.

Shit could have always gotten better, but it usually has to get real bad before people accept it. It’s bad enough now we can actually fix shit

CCW is fine and fills a role…

It’s just not effective against state sponsored terrorism, unless shit is so bad you’re best shot at surving an encounter with them is to shoot first.

And that’s after open carrying with a rifle for visual deterrent results in them shooting first.

There’s levels to this shit, we don’t have to wing it like it’s a brand new thing. Just not be ignorant of human history and how fascists act. None of this is new.

Edit for historical context:

The Liberator was a crude and clumsy weapon, never intended for front-line service. It was originally intended as an insurgency weapon to be mass-dropped behind enemy lines to resistance fighters in occupied territory. A resistance fighter was to recover the gun, sneak up on an Axis occupier, kill or incapacitate him, and retrieve his weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

Yeah, “gun lobby” isn’t the same as “military industrial complex”…

They have two very different objectives and surprisingly little overlap.

Most of the small arms the military buys, they buy so much it eats up the whole product line, and is based on contracts that go decades between reissue.

The shootings don’t just normalize shootings, they normalize everything up to and including shootings.

If they can get away with shootings, they don’t think twice about smashing someone’s head in.

In fact, Pretti possessed a lawful permit to carry a concealed weapon, and widely-scrutinized video has shown that he was disarmed before federal agents fired 10 shots at him as he was restrained.

If they knew he had a gun, they wouldn’t have escalated to beating him.

Once they knew he had a gun, they all assumed he would use it at the first chance to defend himself with deadly force…

I’ve been saying it for over a year now: a CCW doesn’t cut it at a protest, because it’s not a visual deterrent and the second it becomes one you just brandished it at a federal agent.

A rifle is out and in your hands as normal carry, it’s not brandishing and especially when there’s more than one it is a visual deterrent that will prevent beatings, spraying, and other attacks.

Nothing concealed about it, hands on the table.

And in Minnesota if you have a handgun permit, you defacto have a rifle permit. In fact, it’s the only permit you can get, CCW/open pistol/rifle, all the same permit.

General strikes work, and if you’re not in Minnesota this is basically a list of huge conglomerates not to buy from.

It’s not even that they’re the ones fucking up. They’re just the only ones in our capitalist society with the political pressure to get shit done.

We need to fix that, but to quote Heinlein:

Of course the game is rigged, but if you never play you never win.

Edit:

Also, if you havent canceled prime yet they give a survey and you can say it’s due to their support of trump.

You can’t trust name brand purchases due to fraud anymore, and the cheap stuff is on Temu/wish at 1/10th the price.

The 2nd amendment is literally for when the government says rights don’t matter…

That’s how rights work, they’re not inalienable because the government pinky swore to leave them alone. They’re inalienable because the people are explicitly responsible for maintaining that.

Some generations get to eat the cake, some have to make it, and we’re all about to get a baking lesson whether we want to or not, it ain’t gonna be a choice.

They’re scared shitless that Minnesotans will realize they can legally carry rifles (they need a handgun permit tho) and ICE only has pistols

They’re already out numbered 10-1 everytime they get out of their trucks.

CCWs don’t help, because they’re not a visual deterrent and the act of drawing would get you shot.

But a big fuck off rifle will make them get back in the truck. America has a dark history, so fuck it let’s co-opt it.

Let’s see how the racists feel when they get followed everywhere by a group of people with rifles.

I have a feeling bare minimum they won’t be so quick to escalate to violence.

She’s a crazy racist

Do you realize need someone to explain to you why trump losing the support of crazy racists is a big deal?

They’re trying to say DHS will investigate themselves, but even if it’s the FBI it’ll be a sham.

Hell, even a local/state investigation is likely to heavily favor ICE.

The justice system has been broke, and people (rightfully) don’t trust that we’ll get justice.out of it.

And historically that doesn’t work out well for the people holding power at the moment…

Ironically enough before the Cincinnati revolt in the 70s, the NRA stance for decades was against CCW…

Then arrest them for obstruction…

If you don’t, they’ll keep obstructing.

These are the type of people who need immediate consequences to understand they can’t do something. We’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

I saw someone say that she’s literally from Minnesota, and as such can just pay a $20 processing fee and get the voter rolls thru official means…

They’re making a ridiculously easy to fufil demand so idiots don’t realize they’re not getting anything after the literal extrajudicial executions.

I mean. That’s just ignorant at this point…

Even the judges trump was placing for the federalist society a decade ago are turning on trump, and have been this whole term.

It’s not enough, we need more out of court systems. But this is something, and it is real.

Like, shits fucking serious. We need to be honest about what’s happening

It’s not Schumer saying they’re gonna do it like he’s leading a charge…

It’s Schumer pre-emptivly taking credit for what’s inevitable.

Otherwise he’d just keep blabbering about compromise.

That’s why I’d bet on it.

With respect, don’t tell me what I need based on what you need

You don’t understand any of this, but if you were polite and asked questions I would have explained it and you’d have walked away from this with more knowledge than you had now.

Think about who really lost in this exchange