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Travis's avatar

In Texas, 18yo AmCits don't even need a license to concealed carry. The tactics that ICE are using here on *legal* immigrants are just begging for an accidental shootout with an AmCit who is carrying concealed.

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Kristen Gladden's avatar

Yes, that was my point. Plus, as a woman, there are other atrocities to consider. As a former educator, I never wouldтАЩve seen myself as a gun ownerтАжbut here we are, living the unimaginable.

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Travis's avatar

Yea that Tufts U PhD student video is even more terrifying when you think about it from a woman's perspective.

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JF's avatar

Yes. Open season on women. What bystander would come to their aid during a kidnapping or even an assault?

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SandyG's avatar

Certainly not the guy who captured it on video, although of course we are thankful that he did, like the guy who videoed the cops beating Rodney King in LA. Evidence of law enforcement cruelty.

While watching it, I was wondering why he didn't call the cops and say a woman is being abducted on the street in front of my apt?

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C.C.'s avatar

I wondered that too but I think if I were in his position I'd assume someone else would call and focus on getting clear footage

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JF's avatar

So much to wonder about, and few answers. I think the man making the video had a pretty good read in the situation; the masks, the conversation, the slow process didnтАЩt mimic an actual kidnapping. And IтАЩm guessing he knew the womanтАЩs risk factors for attracting ICE, although thatтАЩs pure conjecture.

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JF's avatar

IтАЩve had similar videos running through my mind of a scenario where private security is involved, which is now a higher percentage of our high-end citizens and politicians. Trump has threatened so many Democratic politicians; letтАЩs say Adam SchiffтАЩs security responds as expected to a kidnapping? In my imagination, thatтАЩs when the hot civil war starts.

Also, as a very weird side note; what a time for actual old fashioned kidnappers.

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Kristen Gladden's avatar

This is wild. But so real.

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