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[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shooting and killing fascists generally is not effective as a spontaneous demonstration of opposition.

I mean do we have a whole lot of like, examples of this happening as a case of action? I really can't think of any, I dunno if we'd be able to ascertain it's efficacy without that.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lots, generally in the lead-up and early years of fascist takeovers. Lone wolf assassinations, attacks by small groups, the like. The 20s had numerous anti-fascist assassinations, and the early-mid 30s had anti-Nazi assassinations.

Effective resistance movements only develop out of the roots of organization, direction, and subversion, at which point there are numerous paths to getting the needed weapons and shooting some fascists. Prior gun ownership is a footnote in such operations at best - a liability at worst.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The other points are well taken, I wasn't really thinking so much along those lines. Dunno so much what lines I was thinking along honestly. Probably armed resistance leading up to a fascist government, including armed protest sort of thing, which doesn't really involve shooting people so much as it does just kinda standing around with a gun so other people don't get shot most of the time, I think.