Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?
Objection@lemmy.ml 4 days agoThere’s a chance he would have died in a hail of gunfire,
He did die in a hail of gunfire.
and probably gotten a lot of innocent bystanders killed as well,
Do you support complete disarmament of the police and military? Or is it only with non-state actors that this concern about missed shots outweighs everything else?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Certainly complete disarmament of ICE. Their job is investigation misdemeanors. There’s fuck all reason for them to be armed at all.
You don’t need a gun to investigate paperwork issues.
Objection@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Not what I asked.
I have respect actual pacifists, even if I disagree with them. I don’t have respect for hypocrites who adopt pacifistic stances when it comes to non-state, working class actors but are somehow fine with the state using it.