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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How would guns have helped in the George Floyd case?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The BLM protestors who marched with guns in Georgia didn't get fucked with by the cops at all, because the cops were scared. Look it up.

Other BLM protestors got beat down by cops in riot gear, in countless examples across the country (when the protestors were unarmed).

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this a serious question?

Do you believe armed protesters are easier or more difficult to suppress?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that question is as simple as you think. Peaceful protest is much more likely to garner public support, at least until things are critical. And taking weapons to a protest in the US seems like an almost guaranteed way to die, one way or another. Not saying the cops are well trained with weapons, but neither are the general public.

[–] ChildeHarold@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago

there is a point where peaceful protest is not enough, you realize that, right?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

More protesters would have been shot. The movement would have been demonized even more than it was.

The protests were already overwhelming peaceful. To re-envision history saying "moars guns" would have helped is pretty bizarre gun nutters nonsense.