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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by logicchains on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:47AM (#23399828)
>As far as I know,every documented case where a formerly peaceful crowd turns into chaos has been started with police shooting pepperspray, teargas, or whatever into the crowd.

Question to Americans: if the police really are acting this badly, why aren't y'all exercising your second amendment rights to defend yourselves? My naive understanding as a foreigner is that it's exactly what the second amendment is supposed to be for: protecting yourselves from an oppressive government. If the current situation doesn't warrant it, what situation would?

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by pbourke on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:59AM (#23400712)
> Question to Americans: if the police really are acting this badly, why aren't y'all exercising your second amendment rights to defend yourselves?

Because that is a fever dream. The reality is that if you use a firearm on the police you get killed on the spot or it turns into a siege and you are killed some time later.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by logicchains on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:38AM (#23400955)
Even when the protesters vastly outnumber the police? The police used much less force against the anti-lockdown protestors, who were armed, than against the unarmed BLM protestors. I don't think most police would be willing to risk their lives confronting a large crowd of armed protestors.
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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by freeone3000 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:42AM (#23400617)
They're wearing full bulletproof vests, shields, helmets, and drive up in armored personel carriers. What, pray tell, would a semiauto rifle do against that, other than get you killed?
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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by logicchains on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:34AM (#23400933)
The example gun-nuts usually point to is that Afghani farmers (and Vietnamese rice farmers) did a pretty good job of giving US soldiers trouble even though the solders were way better equipped.
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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by loco5niner on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:17PM (#23405132)
I don't think that worked out very well for them though.
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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by oblio on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:17AM (#23402986)
As a non-American, I'm thinking the exact same thing. The whole system is completely broken.
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