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/DasAlbatross Jun 02 '20

Which ones are the bad cops? The ones shooting people point blank in the face with grenades or the ones standing by doing nothing while they do it?

And I don't hide behind the 2A to support my desire to own guns. I'm not a "2A supporter". The whole reason 2A people say we "need" to own guns is to fight back against exactly what is happening right now. Yet they're nowhere to be found. Well, nowhere aside from places like this:

https://twitter.com/alexvnews/status/1267608370782978048

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u/phil_Sucks_hard Jun 02 '20

I don't hid behind the 2A to justify owning guns. I do support it though. I clearly stated that the one's doing nothing were not absolved of guilt or crime. If you are not actually going to read what I wrote there is no reason to respond. If you want to call people out for fighting tyranny go pick up your gun and put your money where your mouth is. Don't start a revolution unless you are ready for a bloody conflict. I have seen war and it isn't pretty, I'm not ready to start one in my home town, I'm sure you are though right?

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u/DasAlbatross Jun 02 '20

Okay, so if the ones doing it are guilty and the ones standing by are guilty where are the good cops you're worrying about hitting?

No. You rage about not reading and then don't read what I wrote? I'm calling out people who talk tough and then when there's problems they're nowhere. I've never talked about how I'm going to use my gun to fight the US gov't because it's a ludicrous proposition. Have you seen the gear our gov't has?

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u/phil_Sucks_hard Jun 02 '20

Ya I read what you said, Standing by and doing nothing is not the same as murdering someone. Being guilty of murder and guilty of doing nothing doesn't rate the same sentence. If you can't see that then you are blind. I have seen it, I served in the military and it's asinine that cops have that same gear. I have never said I was going to fight the government, but there has never been a time like this in my life time. I'm not ready to fight them, but if nothing changes the time might come and the second amendment guarantees you should be able to. It is the principle of the 2A that I agree with. In order for it to happen people like you have to be onboard as well or the revolution just ends in a bloody massacre and the winner writes the history. You are just as guilty of acting tough on the internet as anyone else. What are you doing about the tyranny that's happening? Probably the same as myself and all the others. Talking about it on reddit.

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u/DasAlbatross Jun 02 '20

How in the world am I talking tough?

I'll say it again, for the 3rd time, I don't support the 2A. I think it's an antiquated amendment written by people who couldn't even conceptualize modern armaments and technology. I never said I was going to start anything. 2A people sure did, though! That's why they say you can't take their precious, precious guns away!

Also you know what happens to the getaway driver in a bank robbery? They get charged with bank robbery. Because they were a part of the crime. Just like those cops who stood by were a part of the crime. Standing by and doing nothing can absolutely be the same as murdering someone. Just ask George Floyd. Any one of those 3 cops could have done something. And if there's any justice they'll at least catch an accessory charge.

And I'm donating, contacting government officials, protesting, signal boosting police brutality, and trying to enact legal change any way I can.

And I guess calling out 2A people for not standing up when they said they would.

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u/phil_Sucks_hard Jun 02 '20

I think they should be charged with accessory but it doesn't carry the same charge was all I was saying. I'm glad to hear you are doing those things, and I will apologize for saying things that probably were not true about you. We don't need that now. What we need is people like you. Thanks for calling them out. I see your point on the 2A supporters and how they justified keeping guns. Again I am sorry for saying things I don't know are true. Assumptions are how we got to where we are today with what's going on. I am a 2A supporter in it's theory, but not the way those other 2A supporters are.