[whftjxrk] 2nd amendment Black Lives Matter

one of the things learned from the Uvalde, Texas school shooting is that police do not like to go where there are guns.  (this is obvious in retrospect.)

same idea:

"Eventually, the bloated people take up residence in the nearby Meadowlark Park, stealing from joggers and passers-by to feed their Luther habit. The police stop responding to that area and, as Huey put it, 'This had officially become a bad neighborhood.' " -- Boondocks, "The Itis" (2006).

police not wanting to go where there are guns means that owning a gun is a viable method of decreasing police brutality: Black Lives Matter.  if you haven't had to own a gun to protect yourself from the police, Check Your Privilege.

how much police brutality has been prevented by Black people, especially poor Black people, the most likely victims of police brutality, owning guns?  if true, this is the anti-fascism interpretation of the second amendment working exactly as intended.  presumptive new gun control measures in response to Uvalde will no doubt make it relatively more difficult for Black people to acquire guns to avoid police brutality, because America is racist like that: this is institutional racism or systemic racism.  how much will police brutality increase as a result with police knowing that Black people are less likely to have guns?

it may very well be that decreasing the general prevalence of guns in the population through gun control will decrease the rate of civilians killing each other, offsetting in terms of total deaths the above-predicted increase in police brutality, with a net result of fewer Black people dying from guns.  however, it is inappropriate to add the numbers of civilians killing civilians to the numbers of the state (in this case, the police) killing civilians.  the latter is much more troubling, an abuse of power by an institution officially vested with power.

counterpoint: if police stop responding in a bad neighborhood, organized crime fills the power vacuum, unofficially vested with power.  even though this would be civilians killing civilians, maybe it is just as bad, because organized crime is an institution unofficially vested with and usually abusing power.

it is also possible that a decrease in civilians having guns could decrease police brutality, with the police less likely or less able to think a civilian has a gun and justify applying deadly force.  will this occur?  we would still have brutality, perhaps more of it, but less deadly brutality.

how much police brutality is excused -- officers escaping any punishment -- by a presumed weapon?  by an incorrect presumption of a weapon?  by a racially motivated incorrect presumption of a weapon?

"I thought the white businessman was holding a suitcase nuke, so I brutalized him to death."