you are saying that discrimination is a reason to arm yourself. people are being discriminated against. therefore, you are saying people should arm themselves. what about this is so hard to understand?

sigh

Alright, what WAS I supposed to take from your post if not “minorities should arm themselves”?

I will also note that you did not initially deny that you had been making such a recommendation.

You heavily implied that people of color, at least, should purchase firearms.

What? When the government tells you what your rights are that’s good and normal, but when a random person tells you what your rights are that’s fascism? Nothing about that makes any sense at all.

God. If you’re this deliberately dense, there’s no point in arguing with you. Enjoy whatever this shit is rattling around in your brain. Blocked.

Before I block you, I am simply going to drop this image from this article. I was mobile earlier, so my sources may not have been the best.

Oh, and this one is just for funsies: You have more success in not losing your property if you use literally any object other than a gun to defend yourself.

My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so.

Then literally why say it?

they have a right to own them

Yeah, and maybe they shouldn’t. There’s lots of dangerous shit you have no right to possess. Guns should be in that category. And for the record, I don’t believe the government should be sending armed people to enforce shit either.

You sound like my mother.

Smart woman.

Yeah, if I’d literally said, “I speak for us.” All I said was, “You don’t speak for us.” Which is true. I never claimed to be speaking for anyone but myself.

Did I say I spoke for the entire class of people?

Because when you recommend that people arm themselves, you are talking to us too. Mental illness is much more common than you think, and becoming even more common as late capitalism exacerbates the conditions which produce some forms of mental illness. Moreover, mental illness can hit at any time. Someone who showed no symptoms of mental illness before can snap one day and commit suicide or murder their family. When you recklessly recommend that people buy guns, you are increasing the likelihood that someone will commit suicide or homicide, due to mental illness or otherwise.

I didn’t say they weren’t a vulnerable person, merely that even if they were they did not speak for us.