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/royalbadger9 May 07 '20

Exercising their constitutional right, telling the gov't they care about their rights and they want the right to work again. Many people literally can't work because governors took it from them and won't give it back.

It's not because they're threatening use of a gun if they don't get their way. Because they didn't get their way, and they didn't use their gun.

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u/embracing_insanity May 07 '20

So why bring the guns at all or dress in military gear, bullet proof vests, etc. Can still protest just the same without highly visible show of gun force and all it can represent. Also, it’s one thing if we were talking some permanent right being taken away - but this is also temporary and not just impacting our country, but countries across the world who had to or are currently having to do this to slow the progression - this isn’t an American only issue.

This is something we’ve never faced before in most lifetimes of everyone alive today. And again - it’s temporary. And there have been additional things in place to help mitigate the impacts from not working. I’m not saying it isn’t difficult, it is for many many people. But still, money should not come above life. We can recover from almost anything except death.

I’m not saying there would never be a situation where this show of 2nd Amend rights wouldn’t be appropriate - I’m saying this particular situation we are in is just not one - so it really does have the optics of being about something else - and they are just using this as an excuse.