Comment by basisword
1 day ago
>> In the UK, there's no right to bear arms, so people are pretty helpless against their oppressing government.
There's a right to bear arms in the US and it doesn't seem to be helping them with their oppressive government.
Look into the Black Panthers. It actually does work quite effectively.
The Mulford Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act), a California gun control act that prohibits open carry, was originally passed back in the 60s to disarm the Black Panthers.
The fact that I can’t tell if this is a joke speaks volumes.
You people cannot seriously be this poorly educated
How? the Black Panthers were infiltrated and undermined by COINTELPRO and effectively destroyed from within, meanwhile the white supremacist capitalist system they fought against persists.
Their biggest success as far as I know is starting free school lunches in the US, but that wasn't at gunpoint.
Ahh yes the murders of Alex Rackley and Betty Van Patter, truly brave and revolutionary acts!
It only works when the gun nuts aren’t on the side of the oppressors.
I feel like it's working pretty great