And maybe consider reaching out to your local community organizers to figure out what CAN be accomplished.
That is my advice and it always is that.
Individuals cannot do anything no matter how high your killstreak was in Call of Duty last week.
Communities… can’t do as much as we would like but it is about strength in numbers and protecting your fellow human being. And community organizers ARE the people working on this.
But people get pissy when you tell them that they aren’t going to solve everything by buying a PSA rifle and maybe going to the shooting range a few times a year.
As for what that kind of resistance is? A lot of it is just actually talking to other human beings to help them work through the terror we are all living with. Some of it is keying in on the weirdo who set up a stingray detector and getting them a bullhorn. And some of it is literally getting off your ass to provide an unarmed front that says “if you want to get to these people, you gotta go through us” to ice. Which is what we have seen work incredibly well throughout the country.
As for things beyond that? Maybe don’t talk about that on public facing social media?
911 is a joke and there’s a non-zero chance they’ll kill you if you get the wrong officer and you don’t satisfy their favored supremacist purity criteria. I’d rather be armed and not outsource my safety to someone I cannot trust. I also trust myself to resolve situations in my home with better judgement than a person who more than likely joined the police to live out their violent power fantasies.
I’m having a hard time taking you seriously when you’re discouraging organizing. 2A oriented groups are legitimate forms of organization and have a role to play. This isn’t about becoming an army that will fight the military, it’s about providing security when the state can no longer be trusted to do so and serving as a disincentive to right-wing paramilitary groups.
You’ve got this mixed messaging saying “the real resistance is talking” but alluding to “things beyond that” presumably organized direct action or civil disobedience. Why can’t a 2A group do both of those things?
“Individuals cannot do anything”
The way you’ve framed this encourages apathy and the role we all have to play in any organized movement. Rather, we’re all individuals and we all have a duty to do something. When ‘individuals’ work together with common interest that is the very definition of ‘community’.
How long have you been hanging out with the military folk and officers you mentioned in this thread? I wonder if your harsh judgement of the means others which to assemble and express their rights is being influenced by overexposure to pig-headed thought.
That is my advice and it always is that.
Individuals cannot do anything no matter how high your killstreak was in Call of Duty last week.
Communities… can’t do as much as we would like but it is about strength in numbers and protecting your fellow human being. And community organizers ARE the people working on this.
But people get pissy when you tell them that they aren’t going to solve everything by buying a PSA rifle and maybe going to the shooting range a few times a year.
As for what that kind of resistance is? A lot of it is just actually talking to other human beings to help them work through the terror we are all living with. Some of it is keying in on the weirdo who set up a stingray detector and getting them a bullhorn. And some of it is literally getting off your ass to provide an unarmed front that says “if you want to get to these people, you gotta go through us” to ice. Which is what we have seen work incredibly well throughout the country.
As for things beyond that? Maybe don’t talk about that on public facing social media?
911 is a joke and there’s a non-zero chance they’ll kill you if you get the wrong officer and you don’t satisfy their favored supremacist purity criteria. I’d rather be armed and not outsource my safety to someone I cannot trust. I also trust myself to resolve situations in my home with better judgement than a person who more than likely joined the police to live out their violent power fantasies.
I’m having a hard time taking you seriously when you’re discouraging organizing. 2A oriented groups are legitimate forms of organization and have a role to play. This isn’t about becoming an army that will fight the military, it’s about providing security when the state can no longer be trusted to do so and serving as a disincentive to right-wing paramilitary groups.
You’ve got this mixed messaging saying “the real resistance is talking” but alluding to “things beyond that” presumably organized direct action or civil disobedience. Why can’t a 2A group do both of those things?
The way you’ve framed this encourages apathy and the role we all have to play in any organized movement. Rather, we’re all individuals and we all have a duty to do something. When ‘individuals’ work together with common interest that is the very definition of ‘community’.
How long have you been hanging out with the military folk and officers you mentioned in this thread? I wonder if your harsh judgement of the means others which to assemble and express their rights is being influenced by overexposure to pig-headed thought.