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Look, you're just flat out wrong here. This isn't the movies. What do you think's gonna happen? They come in, see that the guy is strapped, and say "aw, shucks!" and move on to the next house? Oh fucking no. At best, they're going to come back with enough backup, weapons, and armor to make a Call of Duty game look like a snowball fight. At worst, they're going to riddle your house with about 975 bullets and then remove the splattermark that used to be you off the wall with a squeegee. There are exactly zero situations where arming yourself is going to protect you from ICE agents while remaining alive and safe in your home.
I don't claim to have any of the answers and I'll fully admit that even my own opinion offers little to help. Something has to be done. What that is, I have no idea. How to get there? Also, no idea. But something is going to end up having to be done because the current situation is not sustainable.
Podunk is on the right path that some kind of organization is going to have to take place. People can't be expected to shack up in their homes forever, fearful of stepping outside because their skin is a little too brown and fearing that the next knock on the door is going to be half a dozen masked ICE agents offering them an involuntary tropical vacation. All that leads to is fear, paranoia, distrust, and despair and that helps nobody. What kind of organization that is that would actually be helpful and effective, I don't know.
But what Podunk said would happen is exactly what will happen if immigrants start taking your advice. Despite the US's lax gun control legislation, it's still nigh-on impossible for someone here illegally to get a gun. And if they're found with a gun, they're suddenly subject to the very same charges that would warrant legitimate deportation that they're trying to avoid. They would be validating the Trump narrative that illegals are armed and will shoot to kill. It wouldn't lead to masked ICE agents no longer trying to round up brown people. It would lead to masked ICE agents with AK-47s and body armor rounding up whatever brown people don't die in the process. It wouldn't lead to less ICE agents knocking on your door to pull you out. It would lead to more ICE agents bashing down your door at 3 in the morning when you're sleeping and just rounding up everybody in the house, probably unloading a clip into anyone who happened to be snoring too loud.
Again, this isn't the movies. You're not a one-man army. ICE agents aren't going to say "aw shucks" and give up just because you've got a gun. They've got more than you do, and there's a lot more of them.
No they aren't. You're going to die. But you're going to take some of those fucks too and by doing so you're going to encourage others to do the same...well not you cause you'd rather protest on Saturday's when you have the day off and believe that gun purchase is difficult for anyone in america. (I went to murica when I was 18, it was the 1990's. I, a Canadian citizen shot so many rounds from weapons I couldn't even look at in Canada with no more than a credit card. Last time I went I was in Detroit visiting my sister. I got asked on the street if I needed a gun. Fuck off illegals can't get weapons). You voted for dictatorship and now you have it. Deny it all you like. They'll come for you one day soon enough.
And when you die, the media will be sure to memorialize you by reminding everybody that you were an illegal immigrant in possession of an illegal firearm that murdered a law enforcement agent, reinforcing the stereotype that immigrants are just armed, violent gang members that need to be deported before they kill even more people and giving Trump yet another opportunity to shore up support for all of this by standing in the White House and using the incident as evidence that he was right and you were nothing but a violent cop killer. I'm sure that'll help a lot.
Yea and being disappeard into a death camp forevermore that no one ever exits is gonna be so much better. Fuck off with your rhetoric. Let those poor bastards that are the ones being hunted decide for themselves and quit being a little bitch and help them. I bet you'd be surprised at how many of them would fuck up some ice goon right now vs. a torture and death camp until they die or are murdered. I challenge you to give them the choice and see what happens.
Shit I forgot. They don't deserve a choice. They're just immigrants. Your inhumanity stinks. I can smell it all the way in Canada.
If you insist on pointless suicide-by-cop for these people, why not have them make a real statement. Distribute gas cans and tell them to self immolate in front of the white house.
If you really super-duper want violence, argue for impactful insurrection with organized goals. Reactionary violence against nameless jack boots is the least useful thing imaginable and you look foolish for frothing over it.
I insist on choice for them. Their own choice not yours or mine. It is not our choice to make. Now kindly fuck off you repressive twat. You're no better than your dictator and his ice goons in how you treat people.
No you didn't. You said arm them and encourage them to shoot any random guy in a bullet proof vest who shows up. Read your own damn comments.
If it's not our choice to make then keep your stupid counter productive fantasies to yourself.
Yea arm and encourage isn't making decisions for people. You seemed to have cherry picked that information as well and left the remainder behind. The direct quote of mine is this...
"Suggest they arm themselves and fight back and the reasons why so they can make an informed choice on how they personally wish to protect themselves now that they have this new information. "
Education is not decision making you fool. You'd know this if your government and education system hadn't failed you. It's not a fantasy. The dictator that you voted in to power is disappearing people every day. But you're not one of them so fuck everyone else. Enjoy the camps.