• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Maybe instead of arming queers to shoot bigots, we do something societally about the bigots?

        Because I am not seeing how the queer person getting tried for murder or manslaughter helps matters.

        • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          I’ll check back with you in 50 years on that societal change. Meanwhile, people that want to protect themselves against violent bigots within their lifetime should probably get a gun.

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            6 months ago

            A gun and some time on death row to go with it.

            Because if someone lives in a place where their life is at threat just by being queer and existing to the point that they have to kill someone, they have no chance of finding a sympathetic jury.

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              6 months ago

              Doesn’t make it a bad idea to reduce the chance of getting in trouble. You’re just putting them in a corner by chastising them for finding a way to protect themselves.

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                  6 months ago

                  Chastise is probably not the right word, excuse me for my poor English vocab. You are telling them not to do something without providing an alternative that would also help them in the short term. That is, in some way, putting them in a corner.

                  Also, its not them taking a risk, it’s them weighing the risk of being bashed with the risk of having to shoot a bigot.

                  If they decide that the risk of someone trying to bash them is much lower while open carrying, obviously that means the risk of having to shoot them is also lower.

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                    6 months ago

                    I would suggest an alternative would be a less-than-lethal weapon like a stun gun.

                    And I would say that the risk of open carrying, beyond the legal issue, is that a bigot could shoot them first. Or just attack them from behind before they could get to the gun. So I would also suggest that concealed carry would be safer.

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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          6 months ago

          Maybe instead of arming queers to shoot bigots, we do something societally about the bigots?

          Since there’s no practical way to do something about the fact that bigots exist, the next best thing is to constantly appropriate their aesthetic.

          Make open-carrying a gay fashion statement until the only folks who open-carry are the gays.~

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It makes sense when you realize these people are abject fucking cowards that can’t leave the house without their emotional support firearm.

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        6 months ago

        Old cowboy days often involved checking your weapon into lockup at the edge of town…

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      6 months ago

      You can tell this was a good question because they didn’t answer it.