Jetflag
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- Jul 17, 2020
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Even though I reject your (far left) characterisation of the us as a bigoted society and Floyd dying at the police’s hands “just for being black”. We wholeheartedly agree on the notion that yes..A complete ban on guns in the US isn't going to work because gun ownership is embedded as a right.
Beto O'Rourke declared that he would "take away people's guns" after the 2019 El Paso shooting against Mexicans/Mexican-Americans, and he still lost this cycle in Uvalde (of all places). Americans love their guns, and if you don't want to fall behind as a minority you pretty much *have* to own guns and know how to use them.
edit: this is probably my most conservative opinion. In a bigoted society like the US, the only way for minorities (racial, sexual, or else) to fight back against bigotry is with their same tactics. After all, even gun-toting Texans are scared when armed groups show up to protect drag queen events. In a society where an innocent Black man gets killed by the police (George Floyd) just for being black, gun ownership is especially important for Black Americans. It's the only form of protection we as minorities get, because we can't even trust the police or the institutions around us.
any (minority) us citizen should have the right to own arms and protect themselves.
Whether that be from criminals, kkk racists, antifa or the government itself. If that right is limited or taken away for just one group under the citizen denominator, the us will no longer be the us.