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Terrible advice.
So is not defending yourself from attempted murder fool
As an actual trans woman, let me lay out the actual decision you have to make as a trans woman when deciding whether to carry for self defense. (I know the story had a trans guy, but I'll speak from my perspective.)
I know that first of all, I have had dark times in my life, times I am now very glad I did not have access to a firearm. But beyond that, even using a gun in a true self defense situation is a Faustian bargain.
If I were to use a gun in self defense, I would almost certainly face charges regardless of the actual circumstances involved. The system really doesn't like it when minorities use lethal force to defend themselves. Self defense situations are never clean. There's always something they can charge you with if they really want to.
I can hear your objection already, "better judged by twelve than carried by six!" you say. First, juries don't treat minorities defending themselves either. A third of the jurors will assume I'm a cannibalistic pedophile simply by default. But even if I can miraculously get a fair trial, being judged by twelve may still not be the better outcome.
Look up v-coding. In short, trans women tend to get sent to male prisons, regardless of the state of our identity or anatomy. Like I transitioned physically as far as it is possible for one to do so. I don't even have male anatomy at all. My legal identity was charged years ago, and random strangers never read me as anything other than a middle aged woman. None of this matters. In many states in the union I would be sent to a men's prison, simply because of what body I was born with. And once in prison, the norm is daily sexual assault and rape by prisoners and guards alike.
Even if I'm able to beat the charges, I'll still realistically be looking at months in prison subject to daily sexual assault and rape.
Honestly, I'm not sure being carried by six is the worse option. Sorry, but I would rather take my chances and do everything I can to get away. I think I would prefer death over the consequences of actually using a firearm in even legitimate self defense.
You are far, far more likely to be killed by your own gun than murdered. Guns are a tremendously bad idea.
Note that the centrist fails to spell out what this statistic means and instead says "killed by your own gun" as if a mean ghost posesses the gun and it sprouts legs and beats you to death
an interpretation that isn't a deliberate lie would look something like this: the presence of a gun in a home makes attempted suicides and domestic violence more likely to be fatal, and also sometimes correlates with (not causes) increased threat of violence and decreased access to safety from the police
and none of those problems (except for the suicide one, obviously remove your access to guns if that seems like an attractive option at all) is fixed by not getting a gun
I wonder what the statistics since he took office again how attacks on LEGBT+ and left leaning people have been. We're reaching a point where the left needs to arm up to defend themselves from a violent reactionary wing of the country like said reactionaries needed it to defend themselves.
I think it'd also be important to break down statistics based on political ideology anymore with firearms. I have a different mentality and belief in what owning a firearm is as opposed to your typical reactionary.
Of course it's solved by not getting a gun - the guns in suicide and domestic violence don't materialize on their own.
how many suicides do you think the average person is involved in
do you think that if x% of people attempt suicide, that your individual chance of attempting suicide is x%
I think the chances of someone successfully committing suicide dramatically increases if they have access to a gun.
Cool. As an adult, I like to be able to weigh positives and negatives and make my own decisions.
Since you like numbers, what are the odds these days of getting murdered by a fascist if you don't have a gun?
Approaching zero?
an alcoholic's chance of getting blackout drunk dramatically increases if they have access to alcohol
does my chance of getting blackout drunk increase if I have access to alcohol (no, it remains zero)
we can all see you deliberately mixing up "the general public" and "a specific named individual," it is obvious fuckery
we are talking about populations, not some specific individual.
you literally told a specific individual not to get a gun
Right - because owning a gun dramatically increases their chances of being the victim of gun violence.