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Majority-Black Town in Ohio Launches Armed Watch after Neo-Nazi, Klan Provocations (world-outlook.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27808013

February 28, 2025

"On February 7, about a dozen masked men, some of them carrying AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, drove a U-Haul truck to a freeway overpass at Lincoln Heights’ edge. The men, dressed in black, shouted racist slurs and waived black flags with red swastikas on them. Enraged Lincoln Heights residents soon approached to counter protest. Local police who converged on the scene from the nearby town of #Evandale, across the highway, appeared cordial toward some of the white supremacists. As the crowd of Lincoln Heights residents swelled, the ultra rightists got back on their truck and drove off. Counter protesters burned the Nazi flags left behind. "

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[–] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh yea, it was mostly an agreement and add on.\

Getting shot with rock salt is no fun, though

I've not had to do it, but personally IMO, if you have to fire a gun due to self defense, I'm not a fan of less than lethal rounds. If things have gotten to "I need to fire a gun" it's buckshot where I'm at. But you say firing a shotgun in enclosed space will dissuade home invaders...

I think just the racking of a shotgun will do that. There are few sounds in the US that I think are as distinctive as a pump action shotgun being racked. Nor one that instills brownpants syndrome.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the fact that a home invader can sue you if they survive is one of the very many fucked up things about the US. It's pretty low on my list of complaints, at the moment.