• balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    My fellow worker: YOU need to buy a gun and legally protest with it. The fact that pro-gun Republicans are a lost cause doesn’t imply armed resistance is a lost cause.

    Part of the reason that Donnie can send ICE into blue cities is because many of us are unarmed. Imagine what would happen if we took lessons from the Black Panther Party and patrolled our streets with armed neighborhood watches.

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      2 days ago

      Reminder, Ronald fucking Reagan passed the first gun restriction laws because the Black Panthers were exercising their rights.

      It looks to me that these ICEholes run in packs of four. 10 armed people responding to their presence would make them think twice.

      To avoid cross fire, you can flank in an L-shape

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        Reminder, Ronald fucking Reagan passed the first gun restriction laws

        Well no, the existence of the NFA from 1934 alone disproves that. At the time, Regan was only 23 and working as a sports broadcaster, his entire political career up to that point amounted to “Student Body President” at his college and leading a student strike that got the president of the university itself to resign. He wasn’t even a California resident (much less governor) until 3y after the NFA. About 10yr later (from the NFA) he would enter actual politics as a Democrat, joining the:

        Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), worked with the AFL–CIO to fight right-to-work laws, and continued to speak out against racism when he was in Hollywood. In 1945, Reagan planned to lead an HICCASP anti-nuclear rally, but Warner Bros. prevented him from going. In 1946, he appeared in a radio program called Operation Terror to speak out against rising Ku Klux Klan activity, calling it a “capably organized systematic campaign of fascist violence and intimidation and horror”.

        Clearly it went downhill after that, but fun fact nonetheless.

        Regardless, there were plenty gun laws before The Mulford Act (which shouldn’t exist), like said NFA (which also shouldn’t exist.)