Why we let people this fragile be employed in enforcement is beyond me.
Careful, those phones look loaded! /s
Is it me or they don’t have a fucking idea of what they are doing?
The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds.
Isn’t this a legally the situation where you’re allowed to just fill them with lead?
Yes, but since we brilliantly decided we were good with militarizing the police, expect for them to respond with a battalion’s worth of goons that will absolutely mow down anything that moves without question. This is America.
I’ve got a device that quickly solves these problems. Guaranteed that upon its use, the invader’s behavior would be significantly modified from that point forward. In fact, many people in the US own this kind of device as well, and the right to operate these devices is enshrined in the constitution for this exact scenario! Maybe It’s time for people to start exercising this right.
Didn’t save Alex Pretti.
He didn’t use his device
If he had, ICE would go away?
It’s hard to say exactly what would have happened, but there absolutely would have been several effects. A lot of the bravado you see from these pigs is because they don’t really fear any kind of consequence. Imagine the resources necessary to do what they are doing now, but for them to still feel safe in an atmosphere where armed resistance is likely.
Disagree. If one ICE gets shot, it’s cassis belli to be even more brutal. And the resistance loses the moral high ground. And the fence-sitters.
And it isn’t as if Alex shooting one or two would have saved him from the eight others.
Nothing gained, only lost.
Well, Alex Pretti got shot either way. If he had taken a couple with him I would call that something gained.
I think a major point here is that these goons can act with impunity because most people haven’t internalised yet that if you’re being arrested or raided by them there’s a high chance you’ll be killed or disappeared to El Salvador. At some point, the best you can do is just to try to take a couple of them with you. Once people start treating interactions with them as the life threatening situations they are, they’re going to have a lot harder of a time.
I mean technically the law allows you to shoot and kill people coming into your home if you fear for your life. They would have been justified in shooting these criminals breaking into their home.
And then what? 3 gestapo members just got shot, we better leave him alone
