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This is a great discussion with a lot different perspectives. However, I've done more comment removals and bans on this post than in all my communities since I started them.
Please disagree respectfully. Strong opinions are welcome, rudeness and insults are not.
Thanks for engaging, it's nice to see this place gaining popularity.
TFW you remember all the commenters quick to agree with the police who were treating Gamboa as almost certainly a would-be mass-shooter and treating the actual shooter who killed a dad of two young kids as a hero who had an unlucky shot which killed a bystander as just an unfortunate cost of safety.
People who were like "wtf you guys have this ass-backwards" were downvoted and chastised.
Nice!
This is an insane mentality to try and wrap your head around when you don't live in the US.
I remember seeing the video where they caught "the shooter" trying to hide amongst the other participants. Of course later it turns out the person they "caught" was Gambia, who had not shot at anyone. Good reminder that first impressions from an incident like this can be misleading, and if you don't check in later you may continue to hold that false impression.
Good to see Gamboa is free, and the "security volunteer" is being tried. Liberals - listen up: Just because someone has a fancy title, doesn't absolve them of wrong doing.
Liberals listen up: you should get used to guns; peaceful protests probably aren't going to fix a fucking thing. Real leftist violence, or at least the threat of it, is what is going to possibly correct this ship.
And if the anti-Trump crowd could stop broadcasting "Peace at all costs" and start growling a bit, Republicans wouldn't be brazenly pushing through 50% of Project 2025 in the first year of Trump's term. We probably didn't even need to fire a shot... except now, where Republicans Know we aren't going to do shit. Now with the surveillance networks like Flock, I doubt this administration will show any hesitation ever again.
Instead we get people chuckling "Oh I hope it won't be that long" and going on their day... It doesn't have to be, but it will be if you let it.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a great speaker; but it was the Black Panthers and the rioters that got the Civil Rights Act passed. Non-violence has a place, but it can't be the whole picture. Especially when people are being tortured in Alligator Auschwitz.