The way you achieve more is typically showing up at your local Democratic Club meetings or county party meetings.

I’ll be at one near me. Hope everyone else is too

It’s very efficient at funneling money to contractors.

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

They were filming be-afraid-of-scary-brown-people propaganda

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It’s worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

They used to. They don’t on vehicles made in roughly the last 8-10 years depending on manufacturer.

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

The national guard showed up this morning after being federalized against a governor’s wishes for the first time since school desegregation

Unfortunately local cops are in favor of killing citizens.

ICE has been raiding elementary schools in the past few days.

I dont expect 2nd graders to read the article.

Good luck once locked up without the right to an attorney

Most kids don’t have the set of photos you describe in government databases.

The problem is that you’re probably not lying in wait with a mythical concealed-carry shotgun. Realistic sequences that have happened in the recent past:

• A couple guys wearing utility company uniforms ask to step inside to diagnose a problem. They then jump you and arrest you.
• Your camera system stops working due to jamming. Then 15 armed men break through your door and surprise you while you’re asleep in bed.
• Several people in the crowd at your kid’s graduation ceremony suddenly surround you and zip-tie your wrists before you realize what’s going on.

You’re going to be dealing with a situation where you don’t see in advance what’s happening, and where you’re confronted with a whole batch of people who are heavily armed and wearing body armor. That’s a situation where one individual acting alone is very unlikely to succeed in killing an assailant with a gun.

They’re wearing body armor. Dude with a concealed gun likely ends up dead, and ICE gets no charges because they were afraid.

Pretty much. The fact is that ICE does stuff like beat up and arrest a state-level union president because they don’t like the color of his skin.