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The notion that simply parading around with guns made any of these civil rights leaders safer is empirically proven false by their government-sanctioned assassinations. They were not made bulletproof by carrying guns. They were never truly allowed to use these guns, as the stigma against firing on a police officer continues to be far higher than the stigma against a police officer firing on a civilian. And their overt display of gun ownership quickly became a rational that excused their executions, ultimately undermining their mission.
Take this further - to a degree of full militancy - and you end up with Hamas and Hezebollah. Organizations that have failed to rebut imperial militancy and have even become the rationale for imperial expansion.
You want to believe waving a gun in a cop's face makes you safer because it's an expedient and accessible solution. Guns are easy to get. Sporting one is an easy thing to do. But the reality is harder to swallow. You're not Rambo. You're not in the Vietcong. You're not part of a well-organized militia movement of able bodied, adequately trained resistance fighters.
You're not going to deter the entire federal bureaucracy by brandishing a gun.
I didn't say it made them safer, I said that it made the government scared.
I fucking can't with you. I deleted a whole paragraph. What's your fucking solution that's so much better than exercising our rights?
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