I saw a comment on a video talking about how horrible the Epstein files and Ice are, and the comment said “Y’all have guns, why don’t you do something?”
Because they have tanks.
I asked my parents the same question a few days ago. Since the right wing fought so hard for the second amendment, why don’t we use it? Why don’t we gun down ice officers whenever they invade our homes, streets, communities?”
and there’s a few reasons.
Not everyone has the guts to be a murderer. You may talk big about how you would kill every Ice agent, how you would slaughter every member of congress… But if you found yourself holding the gun with both of your shaking hands, every person you’ve ever wanted dead lined up and ready to take that bullet…
Would you really be able to put it through their skulls?
I know I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.
That’s not a bad thing. It makes us better than them, because they can kill with no guilt, no regret, no regard for the lives they end. They wash their hands, and to them, that means the blood is gone.
If we wash our hands, we still know it was there, we’ll remember the residue and the stain it left. Because we are better. Because we know better.
Another reason would be because, even if everybody in Minneapolis pulled out their guns and killed every last ice agent who dared step foot on the street, ignoring how hard it is to murder, then the ice agents— the government would come back, with tanks and bombs and heavier weapons to bring those damn buildings to the ground.
They’ve dealt with our unruliness until now, but if we pushed any further than protests and riots, we wouldn’t make it out alive.
so no, we can’t just get our guns and fight; You don’t fight fire with fire unless you want a larger fire.
You fight it with water.
That’s what we’re doing.
and if you aren’t ready to stand up and shout for what’s right, then you are not angry enough.
