I see we’ve got a badass on our hands.
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Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoI’m suggesting that if it were me, and I was gonna go down either way, I’d rather die knowing that I helped rid the world of at least one of those rat bastards.
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No? I am under no illusions that I can stop the fascists from killing me if they want to. If five armed men kick down my door, I’m not stopping them. But I might be able to take one of them down, if I get lucky. That is, you know, how guns work. It doesn’t take badassery to pull a trigger.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Pretti’s death may have turned the tide. If he had fired his weapon or even unholstered it, that would not be true.