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Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees

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President Trump has signed three more executive orders, further cracking down on the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. One order seeks to compile a list of so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with Trump’s mass deportation policies. A second order further militarizes local poli...

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Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees

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Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees

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If you don't have a gun, it's time to get one and learn how to use it.
...also how to carry safely. Don't be that guy.
- Including when to use it. It is a last resort. If you pull a gun on any law enforcement officer, even if fully justified, you will be going to jail at best, and killed on the spot at worst.
  
  This is the part I have a hard time with. I want to defend myself and my family, but pulling a weapon on authorities means you're gonna die. These ICE/militarized PDs aren't going to pause a second if they get any excuse to put you down. They might not even bother with the paperwork at this point.
  Unless we're in a "take as many of them with you when you go" situation. But that's a different conversation than the "organize and call your lawyer" advice I'm seeing in this thread.
  
  So like, it pretty much always makes more sense to flee than to fight.
  Guns should be seen as a last resort, not a first.
  
  believe it or not, you're just as capable of killing them as they are you. train and have confidence. confidence and discipline.
  
  Yeah, as an immigrant who doesn't much like the idea of dying, I can't ever see myself deciding to suicide by cop rather than be deported. Being deported would suck ass harder than most things I've experienced - I'd lose my house, my job, be separated from my partner - but still preferable to being gunned down and drowning in my own blood as it fills my lungs.

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