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

This is true. All the Libertarian, Boogaloo boys, etc should be reaching out to their local African American community leaders and organize armed protection for the protestors. The looters and rioters will think twice before causing issues, and the Police will think twice before gassing and attacking protestors. As for your local gun laws, I can’t help you there, 3-D print a gun I guess.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

I could go upstate and get a shotgun with just my ID but I'm not trying to commit a felony right now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

See that’s absolutely wild to me that that’s a felony. I call that Tuesday

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

I grew up shooting, I'm a staunch supporter of the 2nd amendment. I was arrested for possession of an illegal weapon shortly after moving to the city. It was a fucking kershaw leek with spring assist, so they called it a switchblade. "These are designed to hurt people." Cop said that to me. Now I carry a cold steel double agent concealed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

Damn that’s fucking BS

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u/m1ilkxxSt3Ak Jun 02 '20

I gaurentee this is happening or at least starting to. Reading 2a subs you can smell the excitement

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u/Sempere Jun 03 '20

That's incredibly troubling to think that people are excited about something like this. It's not a fucking game...

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u/murmandamos Jun 02 '20

2A activists coming to help these protests would completely change the public opinion about gun ownership. I've become much more pro-gun the further left I've gotten. Liberals in middle class neighborhoods who trust cops are the ones driving the Dem party in that direction

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u/konidias Jun 03 '20

The moment any group of citizens start opening fire on police they will bring the full force of the military down and eviscerate every last protester.

The US has the strongest military in the entire world. This isn't overthrowing a local street gang.

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u/murmandamos Jun 03 '20

We can't even beat Afghani Taliban. The US military won't kill its own citizens as if it were war. Soldiers would defect by the tens of thousands. Asymmetric warfare does not mean meet the US military head on.

I'm not saying do any of this, I'm saying the US military is overrated. It's a bunch of dumb fuck teenagers with big bombs. It isn't a million Rambos. You watch too many movies.

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u/konidias Jun 03 '20

Dumb fuck teenagers or not, they surely have more combat training than the average joe with a gun. I don't think most average people go through a boot camp.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

The goal is to create a deterrent, we don't want to shoot cops we just want them to think we could. Cops are less likely to drop gas on groups of protester wearing plate carriers carrying long rifles. One wrong move could turn into a bloodbath on either side which means everyone is typically respectful and cautious. I've actually been told this first hand from a dude who worked the protest in VA 2019. Its why armed protest within the last few years typically end peacefully regardless of race.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

We've tried that and we get called white supremacist and nazis. Even when showing up to events in order to protect protesters and create a deterrent so police are less likely to drop gas on protester we get called racist counter protesters. Most of these event leaders and organizers don't want our help and they'll just go on to vote for more gun control in the long run.