Hello comrades! Friendly reminder that American leftists continue to be threatened by gun loving conservatives. You should know how to defend yourself and you should probably own a gun. Find an active SRA, John Brown Gun Club, or (if things are dire) pink pistols or other “apolitical” gun club.
I’ve been in the SRA for 4 years, it’s not great, but I met comrades local to me. I’ve learned a lot from them and fash who post good firearms advice and I love to share that when I can.
Open for questions and I’ll post more getting started stuff if this doesn’t get banned.
What is the situation you envision where I’d be willing to pull the trigger on a shotgun but not willing to kill someone?
There are many loads you could use that have good survivability yet are also decent at incapacitating. Go for a high (18, or 20) gauge and use buckshot. You can even get out make rock salt loads that are even safer. Hurt like hell, but there’s a decent chance they’ll survive if you don’t shoot them in the face.
I mean, look: if it’s you, your family, or your friends, vs them, you still wouldn’t be able to pull a trigger? Then at least ask your spouse to train, so they can protect you when the NeoNazis march.
Even if the answer is “no,” and you know you could never intentionally kill someone, then at least arm yourself with the least lethal weapon you can find - a high caliber shotgun with rubber shot or salt loads. They make shotgun shells that shoot rubber and tear gas. You’ve tried to be minimally lethal while still protecting yourself and your loved ones. But with these chucklefucks, trying to be a pacifist and hoping they’ll just pass you by, that they won’t rape your daughter, or wife (or husband), or neighbor or neighbor’s kid while you stand impotently by… to me, knowing I could have some something but chose not is cause for far more moral anguish and guilt than killing someone who was threatening me and mine.
No spouse? No kids? No friends or loved ones you’d protect? No concern for innocents - kids of the wrong color, or kids wearing pride shirts? Nobody you care enough to protect?
Edmund Burke is famously quoted[1] as saying, «The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.»[2]
Burke did, in 1770, say, «When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.» There’s no evidence Burke ever said the other quote, but it was immortalized by Kennedy in 1961 “quoting” Burke with those words. ↩︎
It is more likely a paraphrase of a quote by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who in 1867 said «Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.» ↩︎
Yes, I’ve heard the “wouldn’t you kill people if your family was threatened” line before. Having never been in that situation, I can’t answer it. I do know, however, that I do not want a gun. Is it okay with you that I don’t want a gun?
No I meant for the coordination part. The fact that you’d rather lay down and let fascists and capitalists control you that’s your own problem.
Although even a coward can lay down covering fire.