Oooo, struck a nerve. I award myself 1 million t-points. Most tweets are inane. People that post them incessantly are at risk of being perceived that way.
This sounds like a much more reasonable way to handle things. Hold the violent ones who stole and damaged things accountable and stop macing and assaulting the peaceful protestors.
Father of 19-year-old killed in CHOP says he got condolence call from President Trump, but not Seattle's mayor
What about peaceful protests? Were you going to point out that they are met with more violence than violent protests, or that they achieve nothing?
That would be strange, because those killers weren't protesting. They were just availing themselves of some of the options the Second Amendment affords them.
Indeed, I'm just not sure what else to draw from the "peaceful protest" post. My read is that it is sarcasm about just how peaceful the protests really are, albeit sarcasm which falls down very quickly.
White people owning guns has never been a problem for either conservative governments or the NRA. Black people got guns and suddenly the NRA was all over gun control: https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
I'm well aware of the history of gun control legislation in the United States. I was agreeing with you. Captain Spock was quoting the old English axiom that "sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." The modern redefinition is, of course, "what is good for the goose is good for the gander." My point was that if it was okay for these yahoos to pull the stunts they pulled, even if it was incredibly, amazingly stupid. It's okay for black protesters to do the same. It's not as witty when I have to explain it.
No problem. You go back and say "Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik," and I'll nod and put on my sunglasses and say something witty in agreement.
You know what that's an image of, don't you? That's literally a still of the racist nutbag deliberately driving into a crowd for no logical reason except to murder people. The dickhead who did that got life in prison. Are you attempting to defend his actions?
You know that's the Charlottesville white supremacist who ran into the crowd of literal peaceful protesters in 2017, killing a young woman, right? >EDIT< @The Night Funky beat me to it.
I'm real curious as to how he could not know that. I mean, it's not quite as iconic as this: But it's pretty fucking close.
If were driving, minding my own business and came across a scenario like T.R. describes then, yeah, I'm gunning it and getting the hell out of there. But that's definitely not what that Pulitzer-winning photo illustrates. Trivia: that was the photographer's last assignment before leaving the newspaper for a PR job at a brewery in another city.
Okay, I’ll bite: How often do you think something like that could happen? Regardless of the reason people were protesting? I’m guessing that the answer is pretty close to nil.
I need to add that if you go to a protest voluntarily to seek out the protestors to have a conflict with, and then get into trouble being in a place you were only in to cause trouble, then I have no sympathy for you killing or injuring people and ending up in jail. Most of these guys were out shouting insults and taunting people and then the little pussies got scared because their mouthes wrote a check their wussy asses could not cash. That is how they got into danger to begin with. If you go out looking for a fight and you find it then too bad, so sad. Some of that does go for the protestors who are looking for fights also. I may agree with being against fascists, but if you go out taunting fascists and find yourself unprepared for the fight you get then you getting your ass kicked does go with the territory. I am just saying if you go out looking for a fight be on the winning side, or take your beating if you don't want to go to jail for shitting yourself as you run people over in your SUV or truck.
I honestly didn't know that was where the image came from. I deleted the post. But you asked how often that scenario of protesters surrounding vehicles happens? You have to be living on another planet to think it rarely happens. Most incidents I've seen of cars hitting the gas and going thru people started because the protesters blocked the road then got violent when the drivers told them to move. Your right to protest doesn't mean I have to stop and watch nor does it give you the right to attack people or their property.
