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[–] NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Guns are not a political tool.

They absolutely are and pretending they're not is stupid. They're a last resort, but they're still a tool that needs to be on the table if worst comes to worse. Soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box.

For progressives to abandon every principle they espouse and start using violence as a political tool and direct threat would mean the very last nail in the coffin.

Please, I'm engaging this conversation in good faith so don't take my words out of context. I am not encouraging the use of violence out of hand and I think you know that. I'm encouraging a healthy respect for a tool of last resort, and a deterrent against things progressing to the point where we want to use that last resort. Armed but peaceful protests often result in less violence from the cops and alt right counter protesting, because at the end of the day they see disarmament as an invitation for violence.

There's a reason that if you go far enough left, you start to get your guns back. Some people still understand that right wingers and the elite would prefer fascists and genocide to losing control.