When the nazis came to power, they forcibly took away the guns of their victims. They’d send a squad of SS to your house, surround it, and force you to give up the gun. If you didn’t, they’d kill you, if you did, they still got you in the end.
Some of their victims hid, refused to give up their arms, and fought back. They didn’t survive.
If guns were the answer to dealing with fascism and authoritarianism, germany never would have had the holocaust.
Dunno if you’ve seen that photo going around but it’s pretty striking.
I’m assuming you’re talking about this one:
If so, it’s a bullshit false equivalence, and not even the right context/time/place.
We’ve got witness of it 30 years later when the students in Iran were on the streets calling for change (change that led to my family having to flee)
Seems like you’re misplacing your anger of the government’s actions on the students.
The students could be right today, if they are they sure have lined up with some of the worst people this world has to offer, with the regime in Iran, Hamas and Russia lining up to support.
A broken clock is right twice. And let’s be honest, Iran and Russia are only in it to see the US’s interests (Israel as a middle east oil base) fail. And no students are lining up to side with Hamas, they’re protesting the genocide.
The USSR, China, North Korea, and Cuba sided with the students when they protested the Vietnam war. Same shit, different year.
Turns out crazy is the flavour of the day.
Given that “stop killing people” is currently a controversial opinion nowadays, yeah.
Universities and cops that have attacked students like this have historically, pretty much always been on the wrong side of history. Fifty years from now, these protests will probably be seen the same light, students standing up for what is right, with governments and institutions standing up for the grotesque.
To be fair, brain worms would make anyone annoying.