In Texas an Sri Lanken-American named Rajan Moonsinghe got a gun to protect his home. Suspecting a burglar he stood on his front porch. Cops arrived unannounced & shot him dead in less than 1 sec. And the NRA is silent. This is a trend.
Before Rajan, when cops killed Tamir Rice for a toy gun in an open carry state—NRA was 🤐. When cops killed legal gun owner Philando Castille, NRA was 🤐. But when Rittenhouse killed 2 people, NRA called him " a warrior for gun owners!”
2A doesn't apply to BIPOC.
@SocialistStan @Kitchi @QasimRashid
Unfortunately society needs people to (police).enforce the law. What we don't need are police unions that blackmail communities to keep cops from legitimate accountability.
@joedamiani Law implies some decision imposed on a population by a lawgiver, and law enforcement are the boots on the ground that keep people in line with it through violence, the fear of which creates the order in society that the lawgiver wants.
If you glorify "law and order" you're glorifying the imposition of a lawgiver's will on a population through violence, and implicitly saying that their 'order' is superior to any the people would have chosen for themselves.
@joedamiani Yes, I'm an anarchist. An-Archos, no rulers.
An anarchist conception of 'law' is very different than what the police do. It relies on the principle of free association as a basis, meaning that no body is born into the dominion of a legal system and people are free to choose communities with norms that match their own. The need for enforcement of those norms is minimal when people have self-selected to follow them.
Kinda the way this platform works.
@PensiveTM A diversity of 'laws' is just as important as diversity in anything else. Why should people live under a legal system they haven't consented to?
And if they have consented to it, then it's not really a legal system in the proper sense of the word imo.
@SocialistStan
If you are born in the US, then US laws apply to you.
I just believe there should be no state laws, especially ones that break the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
We are never going to agree here.
I would suggest walking from Tennessee to Virginia by crossing Main St. and see what real freedom looks like.
The below is illegal by most state laws. But not for me.
@PensiveTM So you believe there should be no state laws (even though you espoused federalism earlier), that people should be born into systems they can't consent to, and a document written by 18th century slave-owners is what that system should be based on?
Yah, we are never going to agree, you're an authoritarian nationalist.
BTW, if you had your way that pot would be illegal.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
WTF
SocialistStan
Joe Damiani
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