Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
by joshuamorton on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:07AM
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Also the police are willing to escalate violently with one group but not the other.
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
by californical on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:46AM
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I wonder if it's related to the fact that the protestors a few weeks ago were carrying lots of guns openly. I genuinely wonder what would happen if a majority the people protesting today were all carrying AR-15's
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
by Kye on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:41AM
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Historically speaking, it would lead to a sudden interest in gun restrictions from people who were previously opposed.
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
by matwood on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:54AM
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I wondered about this. If all the people protesting started building arsenals like we saw a couple weeks ago, would that lead to gun control finally happening?
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
by yazan94 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:12AM
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Honestly, it is funny to me that the group most dedicated to standing up and fighting against a tyrannical government and refuses to believe that the military would be called in against peaceful protesters is still standing on the sidelines and watching the violence unfold. The day they realize that they and the BLM movement are mostly on the same side for this issue (anti government heavy-handedness) will be the day that these protests start getting seriously scary.
You're comparing protests about systemic racism and murder to protests getting hair cuts and lowering taxes.
Of course one side's protests usually break out in violence. They are protesting the very fact that they are inordinately subject to widespread state-sanctioned violence.