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No, I think they would have killed her on the spot.
I think that a show of force is useful, at times. (And if you read through my comments, you'll see that I'm very supportive of individuals in minority groups arming themselves.) I think that large groups of armed protestors that protest peacefully help keep things peaceful. I think that groups like GBGCs showing up to protect Drag Queen Story Hour is a great way to display force. I think being armed is a great way to be able to fight back when someone is threatening to do serious physical harm to you. But in a situation where you're surrounded by hostile people, I think that discretion is perhaps a wiser course. At least, it is if you want to be able to protest another day.
And honestly, I'd rather read a headline about a woman having her right violated than a headline about a women being killed at a town hall because she flashed a gun.
I'd rather hear about someone getting dragged out of a cult rally pretending to be a political event where there were otherwise no injuries, than I would that someone successfully defended themselves from cultists by discharging a firearm.
I'm going to shoot myself if I have to read that. Stay strapped.
What is up with the large number of people here suddenly refusing to read... barely more than a paragraph? Like, this is a text-based site. If you don't want to read, why the hell are you on Lemmy?
I already did it. I'm dead