Note identify as a communist not are identified as a communist by a right winger who doesn’t know what the word means and identifies anyone left of Adolf as a communist.
Yeah, and I also find extremely weird that people can be against Rogan (for being Righ-wing I guess) but pro guns and anti communist. It doesn’t sound like “critical thinking” to me
I’m pro-gun; gun rights are also trans right, gay rights, and women’s rights; without gun rights, you don’t get the entire civil rights movement. Joe Rogan is still an idiot that amplifies the views of bigots, incels, and nationalists. Self-identified communists end up being authoritarian; it’s just red-flavored fascism.
So the thesis of this book is “let the good people have weapons because bad people also have guns” instead of “let’s, all of us, have no weapons”?
American gun nuts really don’t get how ridiculous they sound to the rest of the world…
The bad people will always have guns, because cops exist. And–spoiler!–cops are not usually on the side of the good guys. Bad guys in mobs certainly didn’t need guns to lynch as many people as they did in the American south. Matthew Shepard wasn’t murdered by people with guns, nor was Sophie Lancaster.
Oppressed minorities will always need to have the means to defend their own lives with violence, and sometimes it’s directly against their own gov’t. The idea that the whole of human history isn’t soaked in blood is, frankly, willfully ignorant. The idea that cops can–or even would–protect you is laughable.
Women and spouses in particular are statistically the most likely to get shot once a gun is in their home, by far. I understand the need for protection and why there is support for guns but stats are stats, women are the victims of male perpetuated gun violence far more often than people in power.