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every protest is a show of force. this is how many people you will have to deal with, minimum, if you don’t take it seriously.
a protest without threat of escalation is no protest at all.
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Fun fact baseball bats are actually not great weapons. Better than nothing, but they’re designed to hit baseballs, not withstand heavy impact. Wooden bats will quickly shatter, aluminum bats are too light and will bend easily.
Use steel pipes, like from the frame of a chain-link fence (wear gloves for the vibration). Hammers. Go ye olde school and use garden tools like shovels, hoes, pitchforks. You can get police surplus tonfas for pretty cheap.
Liberals need to start buying guns. They’ve spent decades disarming themselves, but now we’ve got fascists co trolling the government, and their supporters have 90% of the guns.
Guns seem evil until you need them, and there’s a very real chance that day is coming soon.
Yes. But…
- In the context of a protest, using guns is the most extreme escalation. You start shooting at cops, cops start shooting at you, and most likely everyone around you. It’s an option but it requires restraint.
- Not everyone is mentally, legally, or financially able to take that burden on.
you should check out the John Brown Gun Club!
Using guns is escalation but showing guns can keep people safe when there’s nazis about.
So many sportball options. Hockey. Golf. Lacrosse. Tennis. Target shooting. Cricket. Billiards. Skiing.
… javelin, pole vault, darts…
Fencing, skeet, caber toss…
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A sign on a whole tree trunk would be both the least and most threatening sign of the lot.
Kinda high potential for an own-goal though. As a Canadian adjacent dude, I’m picking hockey stick. I have an old carbon one that’s light, strong, and keeps assholes at 2x arms length.
