I want murderers to be stopped with deadly force if necessary. When they get the message that instead of a promotion, their reward is a bullet in the head, they might think twice. — Baden
As for sides, yours is clear and that explains your predictable position. — Baden
Are you even reading my posts? You keep repeating this ridiculous cartoon version of everything I say as if you don't have the intelligence to understand what I actually wrote. Do you really not understand it? If so, I'll just stop now because I don't know how I could have put things more clearly. — Baden
On fuckin' :point: Re-posting this everywhere I can!Black people need to arm themselves with the most powerful weapons legally available and when they see a cop trying to murder one of their community, make a citizen'sexecutionarrest. — Baden
Sounds like what the patrician class was telling each other about "barbarians at the gate" the day before the Visigoths sacked Rome. :roll: Just sayin' (though you're probably right).Sorry to disappoint you, but the state won't collapse. — Marchesk
Yes, I'd love if dumb racist white guys weren't allowed to have guns to hunt down black joggers and that cops weren't torturing black suspects to death in broad daylight. But until I have my wish and nobody is allowed a gun then I advocate that black people arm themselves and defend themselves and others in their communities being victimized. It's utterly bizarre that you would try to deny them that right. — Baden
And it has nothing to do with being against guns. I want the guns taken off everyone not just black people. Why on earth should they unilaterally disarm?? — Baden
Twisting your words? I'm just going to leave this here. Your words. — Baden
In all other contexts, people agree that less guns usually leads to a better society. — Echarmion
I think conceiving of politics as a war of one group against another or how to elevate my group above others is essentially toxic. — BitconnectCarlos
The only "controversial" thing I've said is that the black community should have a right to defend itself with every legal means possible where and while it's under threat. — Baden
Less guns for everyone would. If they took the guns off the police and the liberty freaks / racists then they could take them off everyone and it would be a better society. — Baden
While the police are armed and dangerous and the racists are literally hunting down black joggers then that does not apply. — Baden
Where I live, the police have guns and most of the rest of us doesn't, and that usually works out fine. I think it's a better society than the US at least. Of course it's also more homogeneous, so I may be biased. — Echarmion
What's hysterical about that? — Echarmion
It was like 2 weeks ago that a bunch of conservatives in the US took heavy weaponry to a political building. The president approved, everyone defended their right to bear arms. The cops did nothing to stop them. The threats they saw to society were vague, nebulous, undefined. Everyone protected
their right to free speech. Then everyone forgot. — fdrake
Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. — Martin Luther King
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