• Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    413·
    2 years ago

    California wasn’t anti-gun until the Black Panthers demonstrated that they too can legally own guns as American Citizens.

    Remember folks, armed minorities are harder to oppress!

  • Lifted_lowered@lemmy.worldEnglish
    263·
    2 years ago

    Arm the homeless because they are the most at risk of being targeted for violence by fascist homeowners

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
      82·
      2 years ago

      "Those homeless people are lowering MY property values with their continued existence!

      How can they be so selfish?!"

      My oligarch owned Government, culture, and it’s major media will never succeed in propagandizing me into the madness of putting property rights over human rights. America runs on schadenfreude, our values are beyond fucked.

      • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 years ago

        I agree with the sentiment but there is a bit more to the argument than property values. You can simultaneously hold the positions of, “I think society should do more to solve this problem,” and, “I would really prefer to not have needles in my front yard.”

        It’s a difficult problem to solve, and we don’t dedicate the resources or effort to solving it that are required.

        • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
          33·
          2 years ago

          Needles in your front yard isn’t as important a priority as human beings having a place to sleep and something to eat. It just isn’t.

          We should house anyone without means as a society.

          In lieu of that, they set up tents in the commons, because we are a profoundly antisocial, individualistic selfish society and aren’t willing to do better for our fellow citizens as they’re our capitalistic competition.

          To then petition your local government to remove tent cities by your house, or call the cops on a homeless person taking refuge in an area of the commons near your home, is just further harassing the brothers and sisters of our society we have already failed so completely.

          Our homelessness epidemic is a reflection and condemnation of all of us. It’s sad that for so many, the priority is getting that reflection out of their eyeline. Ignorance is bliss.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    141·
    2 years ago

    Is there an actual group pushing for that? (I’m pretty sure I remember a decade or so back there being an arm the homeless group, that put out santa’s etc… though didn’t actually accept donations. (Their actual goal was common sense gun laws, and they knew the people who are pro-gun would argue strongly against it shooting their own pro-gun arguements in the foot).

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      121·
      2 years ago

      #libertrians #armtheHomeless The homeless are one of the most at risk group to authoritarian violence including, but not limited to, police. There is at least one campaign in my region looking to collect firearms that you don’t need anymore to donate them to the homeless.

      • cobra89@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Lol yes, because armed resistance against the police always works out well… Legal or not…

    • acastcandream@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is literally a story arc in Bojack horseman, which is an homage to what California did when the black panthers showed up with guns to the legislature lol. In BH women start buying guns, men pass new gun laws in the blink of an eye.