I prefer

“Do no harm. Take no shit.”

Me too, comrade.

This is something I also struggle with. So much of the lefty philosophy is around acknowledging and respecting everyone as intrinsically human with a life worth preserving. Often I have a hard time hating the average Trump supporter or fascist shill because I know there’s a million factors out of their control that got them there.

I have to remind myself constantly that my life is worth more than someone’s who’s chosen to harm another.

Guns aren’t for everyone and I understand that. I don’t think I could ever become a partisan in a revolution but I don’t intend to be a statistic. If you do choose to have a weapon for self defense please at least train with it. Even pepper spray you can get refillable water squirting versions.

If you do want to try guns one day, I’d suggest a Pistol Caliber Carbine like the Ruger PCC. It shoots pistol rounds out of a carbine/rifle so it’s much easier to control. The rifle in this picture is a KP-9.

Did I mess something up? I’ve never posted to lemmy before.

Point taken. I agree with you. I’ve always agreed with those facts.

But there’s an armed an increasingly well trained and organized movement of would be brown shirts. They’ve repeatedly shown their willingness to escalate violence at protests and threaten violence towards LGBT events. They’ve demonstrated a willingness to act on the federal government with violence. And huge swathsof that population are police.

They have guns. I’m in a queer relationship. I’m a target. I have guns.

$1000-$1100 is still a lot to ask of me specifically, but that is closer to market IMHO

I don’t really care unless it has the same price point as the 8gb one.

But we all know it won’t be.