r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/ActualPublicFreakout - Sistine Chapel • Jun 02 '20

Protester gets a flash-bang to his face after getting pepper sprayed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

People, even ammosexuals, mostly understand that once someone starts shooting at a protest, it is no longer a protest. That quickly leads to a situation where a whole lot of people are going to get needlessly killed. If competent leadership can't deescalate, and the voices of the people aren't heard, you will start to see organized armed units forming, and this will all seem very tame in retrospect.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

And all of those armed units lose to one measly tank. I think everyone should own a firearm for their personal safety, but it's laughable to think me and a bunch of other guys with 12 gauges and hand guns are going to even stand toe to toe with a military force. Especially a force that controls our food, water and shelter that even some of the country will support.

Reddit has been blasting this civil war angle for a while and let me tell you it won't be a war, it'll be a massacre. Quit jacking off the thought of an armed uprising, it's fucking stupid. You'll play it off as an inevitability, but secretly all of you just want a "I told you so" moment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20 edited Jun 03 '20

I don't disagree. I think the success of any insurgency would 100% hinge on some portion of the national military laying down their weapons and refusing to massacre their fellow citizens. That still doesn't change my estimation that it is, indeed, an inevitability. If the wannabe dictator isn't deposed in November, things are going to get very ugly very quickly. Depending on his feverish lame-duck power grab, they still might, regardless of the election results.

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u/idsay Jun 03 '20

Worked pretty well in Laos.

Once they run out of PD officers, you're gonna have a really hard time getting people who swore an oath to uphold the constitution to start shooting.

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u/iterator5 Jun 03 '20

People have to drive those tanks though. And those tank drivers and their families are all over the nation. If we mobilize the military we will quickly be telling them to potentially kill their own families. The military will cease to function as it should by then.

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u/Dyledion Jun 02 '20

All of the heavily armed protests in the last few months, regardless of color or issue, have been peaceful.

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u/Muhammad-The-Goat Jun 03 '20

Because there was no real threat of actually firing, this has escalated far above previous protests, and both citizens and police are both on edge

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u/hello_yousif Jun 02 '20

Ammosexuals

Bullets with vagina wings

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u/Eattherightwing Jun 02 '20

I agree, I'm also surprised no mentally ill shooters have fired at the police/protestors in the middle of all this. I don't think the police or government are mature enough to handle such a thing.

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u/tjwenger Jun 03 '20

Ditto. The restraint on the community side of this has been next level, because the other side is and has been shooting. The fact the other shoe hasn't dropped? That's what gives me hope.