The unspoken assumption is that guns are the only way to fight back. This is false. Violence is a last resort not a knee jerk response. - ThreadSky

corsair321.bsky.social • 15 days ago

The unspoken assumption is that guns are the only way to fight back. This is false.

Violence is a last resort not a knee jerk response.

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nuttydean.bsky.social•15 days ago

You can't logic your way out of getting shot by brownshirts. And that's where shit's headed in this country. Look, it's great if you're safe, love that for you. But for us queers or for BIPOC or other marginalized groups? They've made it clear they want us dead. Might as well make it harder for them

johnatron.bsky.social•15 days ago

So….another non point that no one is contesting and doesn’t impact the argument at hand…

No one is saying “only buy a gun and engage is no other acts of non violent resistance”

splikt.bsky.social•15 days ago

violence has never been a last resort for any state. america is sustained through the violence of the state. to make this argument against violence unless it is a "last resort" (which is?) is just a blueprint for total defeat, that so many liberals have already walked into the threshold for.

brees-knees.bsky.social•15 days ago

Guns are the only way to fight an enemy that's using guns, it's why we don't send our soldiers and marines to Iraq with batons

corsair321.bsky.social•15 days ago

Agreed. But it never starts there.

nervous1140.bsky.social•14 days ago

We're getting real fucking close to our only resort being the last one these days

brees-knees.bsky.social•14 days ago

I feel it too.

trashgirldawny.bsky.social•13 days ago

yeahyeahyeahcoolcoolcoolcool

you realise we're talking about queer people arming themselves to fight back against militarised hate mobs, right?

fourmyle.bsky.social•13 days ago

The thing about a last resort is that you have to have equipped and prepared yourself to engage that last resort in advance.

"Hey I know you're kicking my door down right now, but can you come back in ten days once I finish my background check, 4473, and waiting period? Kay thankssss!"

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