Someone I know told me they think about this when they see the people who voted for gun bans talk now about how they need guns to defend against unlawful ICE folks

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mvdtnz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But not a single person has actually done so. Until it can be shown that armed citizens are making a genuine difference against government agents it's still just bluster.

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quailfarmer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Disagree. The most valuable feature of a fraction of people having guns is that the risk of someone having a gun discourages the most extreme harassment, even if no gun is ever fired.

	▲	GrinningFool 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, just like government operators were recently discouraged from escalating with that one protestor who had a legal gun that he wasn't using.
	▲	misnome 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If only there was an extremely high profile example of how this isn’t at all true in the past several days!
	▲	mvdtnz 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Two protesters were murdered by government agents (one of them armed!). How much more extreme do you want to get?

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saubeidl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Black Panther Party proved this works decades ago: https://www.wbur.org/npr/442801731/director-chronicles-the-b...