While I agree trans people should be armed, I don’t think this is fair to SocDemDoneLeft.
Aside from making reactionaries slightly more hesitant, Guns in the hands of atomized individuals alone means jack shit, especially in the scenario leftists envision where armed rightoid death squads are roaming the streets looking for people to lynch. That doesn’t even mention how the Bourgeois state outguns any individual and only upholds the “gun rights” insofar they can be used against marginalized groups, not by them. You need organization and coordination above all else to make anything matter.
Well they don’t mean jack shit, a gun is still an effective self defense tool for an individual against targeted violence and hate crimes. But they certainly mean a lot more as part of an armed, trained, and organized bloc.
But if you don’t have access to an already-existing org and you feel potentially at risk from non-government fascists, getting armed and trained as an individual is a step in the right direction. Ideally alongside cultivating support and activist networks.
I agree. But I think what he’s getting at is that the “conservative self-defense bullshit” is merely buying a gun to get some peace of mind and a false sense of security, rather than as a step in the right direction. People internalize “minorities need to arm up” to mean that it applies collectively, as if rightoids will just stay away if a percentage of the population they’re preying on straps up. Granted, expecting every LGBTQ+ person to be politically and socially active from the get-go before they even think about getting a piece for their own personal safety is unreasonable; but it’s far from the characterization the OP title implies.
Well if he wanted to stress the importance of organizing and armed community self defense over individualist vigilante fantasies, he should have said so. I’d fully agree on that. A trans girl with a gun doesn’t stop a fascist mob from terrorizing a community, but a dozen queer folks with guns can demonstrably do that.
But he didn’t say that. The way he’s worded the post, it mostly comes off as toeing the Democrat party line and tone deaf liberal civility politics bs towards a minority whose lives are systematically and deliberately being made unliveable as we speak. No cissie boi has the right to tell my Amerikan siblings that, he deserves to get bodied for this when he’s that completely incapable of reading the room and understanding the pain and terror inflicted on trans people in the US.
