kelvron posted:

He got the Merkel hands. I was disappointed there was no technical anywhere, but I guess there's not a 'world leader' that it would make sense for.

https://civisanalytics.com/blog/data-science/2015/12/31/republican-primary-in-one-gif/ posted:

This map shows a week by week look at which Republican primary candidate has a plurality – more support than any other candidate – for that week, in every Congressional district across the country, over the past five months.

Guavanaut posted:

Guavanaut posted:

Better than living in fear of the inevitable.

Guavanaut posted:

Better than living in fear of the inevitable.

BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:

that would be different. There's one common theme that runs between all of these people that's different from Tamir Rice. Something that kept the police from just instantly shooting them and instead trying to calm them down and take them alive. Weird.

Guavanaut posted:

Better than living in fear of the inevitable.

LeJackal posted:

I wonder what it could be, hrmmm.

KazigluBey posted:

I forget, is LeJackal alright on racial issues or does the Gun angle overrule that?

LeJackal posted:

Guns and gun control are red herrings used to distract from the real issues of systemic institutionalized racism.

The Dark One posted:

Rand alPaul posted:

This is really a right only for white people. No way black men can walk around carrying rifles without having the cops called on them non-stop.

lancemantis posted:

Can't even make this up

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

that's not a quilt

Armyman25 posted:

You can tell who a company thinks their consumer base is by their ads.

Apparently Robocup (a cup holder that you can clamp to things) is targeting the MinuteMen.

spacetoaster posted:

Judging from the eye/ear protection, the range bag, and pistols I'd say that's just a picture of someone spending the day at a range. Also, that photo is from a series on different sporting activities (of which pistol shooting is one).

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

BgRdMchne posted:

The easiest way to enact gun control is to have the blacks carry:


As soon as the happened, the NRA was begging for regulations on open carry in LA.

BgRdMchne posted:

The easiest way to enact gun control is to have the blacks carry:


As soon as the happened, the NRA was begging for regulations on open carry in LA.

Dr. Killjoy posted:

don't ask your black friends to do this. they will die.
Like I really don't get how the Black Panthers could have pulled this off and only get judicial responses rather than cops gunning them down. Heck (in cases where the police didn't set their houses on fire 'preemptively') the few black radicals gunned down by police back in the 70s were arguably justified. Cops are literally more trigger happy today

quote:

In February of 1967, Oakland police officers stopped a car carrying Newton, Seale, and several other Panthers with rifles and handguns. When one officer asked to see one of the guns, Newton refused. “I don’t have to give you anything but my identification, name, and address,” he insisted. This, too, he had learned in law school.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?” an officer responded.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?,” Newton replied indignantly. He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

Newton got out of the car, still holding his rifle.

“What are you going to do with that gun?” asked one of the stunned policemen.

“What are you going to do with your gun?,” Newton replied.

By this time, the scene had drawn a crowd of onlookers. An officer told the bystanders to move on, but Newton shouted at them to stay. California law, he yelled, gave civilians a right to observe a police officer making an arrest, so long as they didn’t interfere. Newton played it up for the crowd. In a loud voice, he told the police officers, “If you try to shoot at me or if you try to take this gun, I’m going to shoot back at you, swine.” Although normally a black man with Newton’s attitude would quickly find himself handcuffed in the back of a police car, enough people had gathered on the street to discourage the officers from doing anything rash. Because they hadn’t committed any crime, the Panthers were allowed to go on their way.

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

Huey Newton knew more about the law than the cops, and very publicly demonstrated it. He was a showman, and basically scared the police so much they couldn't do anything at the time.

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Heck (in cases where the police didn't set their houses on fire 'preemptively') the few black radicals gunned down by police back in the 70s were arguably justified.

quote:

The raid was organized by the office of Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, using officers attached to his office. Hanrahan had recently been the subject of a large amount of public criticism by Hampton, who had made speeches about how Hanrahan's talk about a "war on gangs" was really rhetoric used to enable him to carry out a "war on black youth".

At 4:00 a.m., the heavily armed police team arrived at the site, divided into two teams, eight for the front of the building and six for the rear. At 4:45 a.m., they stormed into the apartment.

Mark Clark, sitting in the front room of the apartment with a shotgun in his lap, was on security duty. He was shot in the heart and died instantly. His gun fired a single round which was later determined to be caused by a reflexive death convulsion after the raiding team shot him; this was the only shot the Panthers fired.

Automatic gunfire then converged at the head of the south bedroom where Hampton slept, unable to awaken as a result of the barbiturates the FBI infiltrator had slipped into his drink. He was lying on a mattress in the bedroom with his fiancée, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their child. Two officers found him wounded in the shoulder, and fellow Black Panther Harold Bell reported that he heard the following exchange:

"That's Fred Hampton."
"Is he dead?... Bring him out."
"He's barely alive.
"He'll make it."
Two shots were heard, which were later discovered were fired point blank in Hampton's head. According to Johnson, one officer then said:

"He's good and dead now."
Hampton's body was dragged into the doorway of the bedroom and left in a pool of blood. The officers then directed their gunfire towards the remaining Panthers, who had been sleeping in the north bedroom (Satchel, Anderson, and Brewer). Verlina Brewer, Ronald "Doc" Satchel, Blair Anderson, and Brenda Harris were seriously wounded, then beaten and dragged into the street, where they were arrested on charges of aggravated assault and the attempted murder of the officers. They were each held on US$100,000 bail.