The “American by birth, southern by the grace of god” is icing on the shit cake.
After thinking about it a bit I actually think this makes sense.
Imagine a bully on the playground, in a group of other bullies who have all convinced themselves they’re the victims. The bully has a baseball bat in their locker that they use to terrorize smaller children who wear blue hats because that means they’re secretly out to get the bully. The bully heard one time on another playground a kid in a blue hat hit a kid with a baseball bat, just like our bully. Every time a bully beats the hell out of a random kid at recess there are short term exclamations from the all kids asking for the school to take away the weapons, even though they die out quickly, the bully takes offense at the idea of someone taking away his only tool to protect themselves from spooky blue hats kids.
He stands tall with the other bullies at recess holding little signs, we dare you to take away our baseball bats! Genuinely simultaneously afraid and empowered. They inflict actual threat of violence because they internally have conjured the idea of violence against themselves.
In this recess analogy, hall monitors would stand with the bullies, having baseball bats themselves and also being afraid of the blue hat kids.
If one day a blue hat kid brought a baseball bat to protect themselves the hall monitors and teachers all immediately crack down on them and take it away, because obviously it’s not for self defense they’re “clearly” out to get the hall monitors.
I don’t think ideologically cops would take guns from people who think like them and ally with them, rather from “rebels” and “others” who start a genuine rebellion against a facist regime. Obviously from the perspective of the enforcement of laws against guns the police are the arm of the executive among the people, but they choose when and where to enforce laws all the time.
I don’t think ideologically cops would take guns from people who think like them and ally with them
Cops are quite verbal when it comes to restricting guns. They would love nothing more than to be the only ones armed. Put yourself in their shoes. Think they don’t deal with conservative gun nuts?
An invitation to smash his windows out with a hammer!
Why the hell would you advertise that you’re armed?! My intention in carrying a gun is self-defense. Why the fuck would I give up surprise?!
If you’re ignorant enough you skip the discomfort from cognitive dissonance.
Cops are the racist gun toters they support and who they imagine will stand up against “taking guns”, so I am not seeing a contradiction, for once.
