Armed minorities are harder to oppress
I’ll bet the ones with legs are even harder to catch!
Is that actually so? Anything to back that up? Looking at ICE I wound dismiss that right away.
Look into the history of the black panthers. They armed themselves which caused new gun laws to be passed in the state of California. The irony being that those bills were signed into law by Reagan when he was governor
I really want to start a sort of civil movement charity type thing that voluntarily helps minority groups learn to operate and aquire firearms. Especially in the queer community, firearms are considered an icky or scary topic, but in this day and age it’s not something you can afford to be scared of. Breaking down the macho talk of gun culture and sticking to clear, safe facts will go a long way, same for a buddy system to help people people who might not be comfortable entering the gun culture oozing gun store to purchase a gun. I know a lot of women who want to buy a gun but don’t want to be a woman in a gun store.
You could look into joining or starting an SRA chapter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X39IkX2OpBs
tl;dw consumption alone is meaningless. you need organization first and foremost
I got my firearms license soon after trump started saying 51st state. I’m not really interested in guns but with each passing day it feels more and more necessary
I don’t really trust myself with guns tbh. Not in a “might decide to use them inappropriately” sort of way, but whenever I’ve fired them before, it’s gotten my anxiety issues to spike in a way that only a couple other things do worse, and my ability to think clearly and actually aim at anything has been serious impaired. It does depend on the type of gun a bit, shotguns trigger it the worst ive found thus far for example and very small-caliber bolt action rifles the least, but anything actually reliably useful if you were in a fight is likely to be towards the worse end of it and even the milder ones are stressful enough to use that realistically if I bought one, it’d get used for target shooting maybe twice and end up forgotten in a gun locker as bait for thieves or something.
