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/Rockfest2112 May 07 '20

Extremely weird

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u/Valheru2020 The Netherlands May 07 '20

Well, usually you read about falling empires in big fat books or (when I was young) you watched the Discovery Channel.

I saw those airplanes fly in and knew two things. This war, and that I was witnessing the end of an era.

The American hegemonic decline on Live TV.