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minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoAnd also what 2A has been woefully incapable of preventing for all but the first few years of this country’s history.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·16 days agoI mean, historically black power and workers’ rights movements used it to great effect.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-216 days agoYou mean like when California enacted stricter gun laws to stop the black Panthers from carrying?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·16 days agoYes, exactly. If it didn’t work they wouldn’t have tried to stop it.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoI think passing that law just proved that 2A never had any power. And rubbed it in the Panthers’ faces at the same time.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 days agoI mean, rights in general only matter if enough fight for them. We’re seeing this right now with the Fifth and First Amendments; none of this is unique to the Second.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoExactly. But all the 2A morons claim it protects the other rights, when it hasn’t. At least not sustainably.
And also what 2A has been woefully incapable of preventing for all but the first few years of this country’s history.
I mean, historically black power and workers’ rights movements used it to great effect.
You mean like when California enacted stricter gun laws to stop the black Panthers from carrying?
Yes, exactly. If it didn’t work they wouldn’t have tried to stop it.
I think passing that law just proved that 2A never had any power. And rubbed it in the Panthers’ faces at the same time.
I mean, rights in general only matter if enough fight for them. We’re seeing this right now with the Fifth and First Amendments; none of this is unique to the Second.
Exactly. But all the 2A morons claim it protects the other rights, when it hasn’t. At least not sustainably.