Flipping The Script

Grand Master Jay turned out his NFAC guys in Louisville yesterday.

Reuters:

A group of heavily armed Black protesters marched through Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.

Scores of the demonstrators, carrying semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and clad in black paramilitary gear, walked in formation to a fenced off intersection where they were separated by police from a smaller group of armed counter-protesters.

The Black militia dubbed NFAC want justice for Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who died in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators bearing a “no-knock” warrant entered her Louisville home four months ago.

To be clear, I can do without the macho bullshit with the Emotional Support Weapons.

But, 2 things:

First, ain't it funny how the cops don't wanna fuck with you when you're packin'?

I don't like that line of thinking, because it seems to lend a little credence to the 2A fetishists' arguments about needing guns to stand against the tyrannical gubmint. I don't believe that's a valid conclusion here, but it's worth thinking about.

Second, there is definitely a weird kind of Good Karma vibe about this. And a call back to the Black Panthers demonstration in California 50 years ago - which funnily enough prompted then-Gov Ronald Reagan to help hustle through a piece of legislation that put some limits on open carry at the time.

And that's always been pretty interesting - that white people can get pretty reasonable all of a sudden when black people stand up and push back, giving us a little taste of our our shit.

But back to the but - even if your main intent is simply a show of force, some jagoff yahoo is going to obsess on "An unused weapon is a useless weapon", and there will be blood.

If you believe in the power of prayer, now is another really good time to pray.