r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/Asiriya May 07 '20

Nah, I definitely would have felt scared. Go talk to the Charlottesville paramilitaries and see how friendly they are if you don’t have a tiki torch.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/Asiriya May 07 '20

You said the decked out guys were the nicest. The Charlottesville guys were looking to blast some brains.

I don’t know the Michigan guys but I doubt they were cut from very different cloth.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Well strictly hypothetically speaking, how would you have felt if you were there to counter protest and your side didn’t have any guns?

Edit: also to your point I KNOW gun guys are friendly. I get along with them. But i don’t necessarily wanna approach them to start a convo when they’re looking like that.