• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You can obtain guns, but there are limits and requirements to try to make sure they’re being stored properly and only bought in reasonable numbers for legitimate purpose.

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            By and large guns don’t provide security.

            There are a lot more creative ways to protest violently though!

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                I think we kinda misunderstand what the other person is saying/what they imagine the outcome to be. There’s a crass culture difference here.

                In the UK (and presumably most other European countries) the police would 100% escalate things if they see someone with a gun near a large aggregation of people. Carrying guns like that is simply illegal and the only reasonable deduction is that you carry a gun because you want to use it - i.e. you are about to commit murder.

                Police violence against protesters is usually limited to water cannons and tear gas, maybe rubber bullets. Protester violence is rare, sometimes throwing rocks, maybe Molotov cocktails and burning cars.

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      Please stop using that phrase. It’s now used by everyone and their grandmother to promote their little evil extremist shtick.

      We want gays and LGBT imprisoned or executed! If you don’t make my peaceful revolution possible you make a violent revolution inevitable!

      Edit: the paragraph above is an paraphrased example of how right wing extremists talk. I’ve hung around in conservative areas on reddit, and people quite literally talk like that.

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        Let’s say we stop using that phrase. Everyone and their grandmother with evil extremist shticks keep using it.

        … how is that better?

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        You do know that Stonewall was a riot right? LGBT rights were not achieved by hanging some rainbow flags from a truck and drinking champagne in a topless outfit

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        i don’t understand your second paragraph at all. sounds like you don’t know what peaceful means.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          My second paragraph was an example of how tight wing extremists use that very same phease.

          Its always "you have to adopt MY extremist and violent policies which I think are really peaceful, or I’ll threaten with a violent revolution

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            but what do I give a shit if that’s not how I say it… like ok, so right wing cunts lie. not news… I’m telling the truth.