“I feel like it’s more secure now,” one woman said. “I know my son can walk home and be OK.”

Summary

Following a February 7th neo-Nazi rally, residents of Lincoln Heights, a majority-Black Ohio town, formed an armed Safety and Watch Program to protect against hate groups.

The rally, where participants waved swastikas and shouted slurs, received little police intervention, sparking fears of future threats when no arrests or identifications were made during the incident.

Volunteers now patrol bus stops and neighborhoods. “I’ve never felt safer as a Black man in my community,” said spokesperson Daronce Daniels.

The historically underserved and self-governing community shows strong support for the initiative with yard signs and sees this as a continuation of its legacy of self-reliance and community defense.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    516·
    8 hours ago

    An assault rifle just tells everyone you can’t aim and are happy with indiscriminate targeting. They are fine when you are fighting 1000 of something, but there’s a reason the army sharpshooting badge doesn’t include burst fire (or didn’t thirty year’s ago, anyway).

    I’d recommend just about anything else for self defense, actually.

    I can’t because of some mental health concerns in my household (not the least of which, my own), but otherwise I’d have a revolver.

    • MoistOwlette@lemmy.world
      112·
      5 hours ago

      An assault rifle just tells everyone you can’t aim and are happy with indiscriminate targeting.

      Tell me you’ve never shot a gun, without telling me you’ve never shot a gun

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        53·
        4 hours ago

        Qualified expert with an M-16. Which also implies I’ve fired an M-60, but that’s not really relevant to the discussion.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      61·
      6 hours ago

      I’m not thinking about self defense against some burglar. I’m talking about self defense in the sense the US gun nuts have been talking about for decades. Now that tyranny has actually arrived, they’re very quiet all of a sudden. Who would have thought.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        WWI more than a hundred years ago demonstrated conclusively the military worthlessness of a bunch of dudes armed with rifles, when faced with the real elements of state military power: artillery, tanks and airplanes. The US government has no fear of a bunch of fat old dudes with closets full of peashooters.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      82·
      6 hours ago

      This situation absolutely calls for rifIe usage. Tell us you know nothing about firearrns without telling us…

    • grue@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 hours ago

      [Assault rifles] are fine when you are fighting 1000 of something, but… I’d recommend just about anything else for self defense, actually.

      (Pointedly) Yeah, we know.