They want to be like Kyle Rittenhouse
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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If you're wielding a gun I don't think you are a protester.
Strong disagree. I think most protesters being armed would make for better protests.
Cops always leave the large groups of armed people alone. I wonder why...
But at the same time if they didn't have trigger happy cops to deal with and "counter protesters" with guns they wouldn't need to protect themselves so aggressively. I get where you are coming from and I agree that people need to defend themselves, but if we go down this route the most likely result will just be more violence. I'm not ready to let significantly more people die just because I'm pissed off. I understand that things are bad but they can be so much worse.
On a side note, even though I disagree with you this reminded me of the episode of South Park where everyone in town gets a gun and it finally gets everyone to speak their minds about everything. And then someone, I can't remember who, says something along the lines of "wow, guns really are amazing" as they all finally get along while they all point guns at each other. Off topic as all hell, but it made me laugh.
Ah Loo disagrees.
Given that the person who accidentally shot Ah Loo also credibly prevented a mass shooting, that's not the gotcha you think it is.
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No they were shooting at a leftist known for legally open carrying at protests, and there's video of him just walking with the gun pointed down before he gets unexpectedly shot at.
Oh, that's fucked up then. Should definitely be arrested and charged.
So more guns at protests being a good thing has a cutout specifically excluding ones being used for mass shootings?
good guys with guns to stop bad guys with guns.
And that's how we ended up with cops in schools and, in some cases, teachers with guns. And that hasn't backfired whatsoever. /s
no lies detected.
just ... staring at the place we've arrived at with naked disgust, is all.
Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
See: Black Panthers.
As a veteran, I wish that I could band enough veterans together to protect these and other protests, whilst being armed to intimidate any bad actors from the thought of preventing people from the right to organize and protest under the constitution. FYI, I work closely with cops (but not working for them) in my new line of work and they are a bunch of dickheads that need to be reminded that there are people with a shit more training that could make life uneasy for them (because of yellow belly's).
All of this to say, while I don't disagree with you, ideally all protesters would be unarmed. Until they have some form of protection that doesn't involve cops gassing and shooting them with rubber bullets, or people driving their vehicle through the crowd. They deserve protection from people that still believe in the constitution and especially the people that swore an oath to uphold it.
Easier said than done sadly.
I'm more worried about the double edged sword that creates. Sure, you have more people protecting the protests, but then they could see that as an escalation which means more cops or ICE and potentially more bad actors. Now you're gonna need more protection and next thing you know you are in an arms race with ICE with an ever increasing risk of shit going down. It's definitely a tricky situation, but based on some of the videos I saw of agitators during these protests, they were looking for a fight. And whether it was a gun or a car, some of them did start a fight.
No, if you are wielding a gun I don’t think you’re a counter-protestor. That is just someone looking to shoot someone.
Protestors generally could carry a gun to defend themselves.