Cops are cowards, so they might not have felt empowered enough to gang up on him.
A visible, if not brandished, firearm would have heightened the situation for sure, and made it so there was a 50/50 chance that “they fucked off” or “they shot him.”
But, even though it’s with hindsight, seeing as they still killed him…
I cannot recall a single video of protesters open carrying getting shot with pepper balls, rubber bullets, or sprayed like any of the unarmed protests we see get fucked with by police in the US on the regular.
Alex Pretti has a legal firearm on him and he was killed by his government for it.
Which resulted in the wildest mental gymnastics of “Alex wasn’t allowed to have firearms at protests but the neo Nazis definitely are don’t ask why”.
By the logic of the post that only means he didn’t have enough firearms, for instance if he had a tactical nuke he would be alive and well today /s
Just hook the nuke to an implanted heart monitor like Raven from Snow Crash.
(Also /s)
Also the bad guy from Spawn(1997)!
Hey! That bad guy has a name! It’s uhhhh… Ummm… Like, Martin Sheen with a bad dye job.
I think that’s the one movie that could have been elevated by casting Joe Estevez instead.
Second snow crash post today! Yay!
Only if you ride with it in a sidecar on a motorcycle
Do you legitimately not see a difference between having a concealed pistol and open carrying a rifle?
Like, to you those are the same thing?
Concealed gun with a valid conseal carry permit
Why would you even say that?
Like, what relevance does it have to anything?
Is it like a child shouting “moo cows have four feet?”
Like, you just couldn’t contain a factoid everyone talking about the topic already knows so you just blurted it out?
He had a concealed weapon he never reached for…
I’ve never seen cops start beating a person that was carrying a rifle.
Because the rifle is a visual deterrent. A concealed pistol is not a deterrent, because it’s fucking concealed.
If Alex Pretti had an AR15, the cops wouldn’t have started beating him or likely others.
Going for the worst-take-ever award?
Cops are cowards, so they might not have felt empowered enough to gang up on him.
A visible, if not brandished, firearm would have heightened the situation for sure, and made it so there was a 50/50 chance that “they fucked off” or “they shot him.”
But, even though it’s with hindsight, seeing as they still killed him…
I can find an endless stream of cops escalating violence against people who are not visibly armed.
Can you show me one instance of police escalating to violence against a protestor with a rifle in their hands?
Cops are scared bullies, they attack the weakest targets.
When they see rifles, they go elsewhere.
It’s not a “take” it’s what the fucking numbers say. Opinions aren’t relevant, neither is you believing anything.
I cannot recall a single video of protesters open carrying getting shot with pepper balls, rubber bullets, or sprayed like any of the unarmed protests we see get fucked with by police in the US on the regular.