that sounds like a sure way to get national guards involved. and a lot of cops are scared and use their gun easily if they feel absolutely any threat and a bunch of armed protestors are going to make the tear gas skipped and they go straight to shooting
And yet, it has been used a number of times, and the National Guard units have not been involved. Reality doesn’t match your claim.
The trick is that the protestors need to be both peaceful and armed. Once violence starts, yes, the National Guard would likely get called. But cops confronted by a crowd of demonstrators that are all as well armed as they are don’t tend to indiscriminately use force.
ok ok I’m just gonna shut the fuck up now cuz I don’t want to end up in another argument. I feel like happens all the time in lemmy maybe I shouldn’t just comment anything
that sounds like a sure way to get national guards involved. and a lot of cops are scared and use their gun easily if they feel absolutely any threat and a bunch of armed protestors are going to make the tear gas skipped and they go straight to shooting
And yet, it has been used a number of times, and the National Guard units have not been involved. Reality doesn’t match your claim.
The trick is that the protestors need to be both peaceful and armed. Once violence starts, yes, the National Guard would likely get called. But cops confronted by a crowd of demonstrators that are all as well armed as they are don’t tend to indiscriminately use force.
ok ok I’m just gonna shut the fuck up now cuz I don’t want to end up in another argument. I feel like happens all the time in lemmy maybe I shouldn’t just comment anything