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  1. #Firearms #Guns #Life #GoodVsEvil #SecondAmmendment #GunViolence #Protectors #Police #Soldiers #Law

    3/3 This is a very divisive topic. One side is totally against guns: no one should have them. One side thinks everyone should be allowed, and can have one if that’s what they want. Both sides think the other side is going to do awful things in service of their ideas. Pass laws. Hurt people. Go door to door and take guns away.

    I have only one point in this post: your current opinion is probably based on a much simpler view. The real situation is so much more complex. If you think you have the answer, and you think that answer is something that could actually happen, you are probably wrong. And I don’t care which side you’re on.

  2. #Firearms #Guns #Life #GoodVsEvil #SecondAmmendment #GunViolence #Protectors #Police #Soldiers #Law

    2/3 Just as cars can be used for evil; fire can be used for good. But we follow strict rules to make fire serve us in a way where it doesn’t destroy what we value. That doesn’t change the nature of fire: fire still destroys. If nobody (anywhere) had guns, would the world be a better place? Obviously, I can’t know that, but it sure seems like it could be. Because bad people have guns, we tolerate guns in the hands of “protectors”, police, soldiers, etc. That doesn’t change the nature of guns: guns still destroy. When a protector uses a gun, it’s still to destroy.

    Bad people are bad, yes, that’s obvious. Tools of destruction make bad people so much worse. I’m not making any moral judgement about tools. I’m not saying they’re good and can be misused! I’m not saying they’re inherently evil! One of those might well be the truth, but it’s so complicated I don’t think I have the moral knowledge or understanding to choose. I’m saying that the combination of a bad person and a gun is a bad thing and is pretty much certain to lead to awful consequences. A “protector” with a gun is not automatically bad, but sooner or later, they might be put in a position that ends with loss of life. I have posted on this before: life is precious. Even “bad guys” deserve to be alive, unless they are doing something so evil that it outweighs their need to live, and there’s absolutely no other way to stop them. Because bad guys have guns, that can happen. No “protector” wants to make that decision (and if you think that decision is easy, you’re much closer to the “bad guy” end of the spectrum than the “protector” end). There are no winners.

  3. #Firearms #Guns #Life #GoodVsEvil #SecondAmmendment #GunViolence #Protectors #Police #Soldiers #Law

    1/3 The “nature” of fire is destruction. It burns, it eats things up, it is destructive. There are people who love that about fire. They want to destroy things **with** fire. We call those people arsonists. A single arsonist can destroy millions of acres, hundreds of lives, towns’ worth of homes, with an action that takes them less than a second. People with destruction in their hearts are evil … and fire is a huge force multiplier that makes them so much worse.

    The nature of guns is destruction. In every single application of a firearm, the result is destruction. Sometimes small, sometimes large, sometimes devestating. There are people who love this about guns. They want to destroy things **with** guns. Here in the United States we see so many examples of this I don’t need to describe it futher. Guns destroy things, and very often the things they destroy are human lives. (Cars can be used to kill and destroy, too, but that’s not their **nature**. Their nature is about moving things from place to place.). Guns are force multipliers that allow evil people to do so much more harm than they might without a gun. Some guns are especially good at killing human beings.

  4. Recite the #Oath to the troops - remind them they are there to #Protect the #People and the #Constitution - thank them for being your #Defenders & #Protectors & tell them to #Stand with us, #Beside us as #Part of us - the People. #United #WeThePeope are the #Light and #Force of Change

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evsnrnz7pzcjqqv4mwnsnedr/post/3lw6aealwso2k

  5. Free Fiction Monday: Sob Sisters

    Madison, Wisconsin, 1972—When Detective Hank Kaplan calls Valentina Wilson to a crime scene, she wonders why. She soon finds more questions than answers in a secret room belonging to a wealthy female philanthropist, whose brutal murder the police hastily cover up. Val’s search for the truth…
    kriswrites.com/2025/04/07/free

    #freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #KrisNelscott #MondayFictionPost #Protectors
    @indieauthors

  6. #ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

    While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

    Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

    By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

    "In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

    "The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
    .
    "This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

    "'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

    "Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

    "Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

  7. #ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

    While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

    Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

    By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

    "In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

    "The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
    .
    "This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

    "'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

    "Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

    "Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

  8. #ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

    While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

    Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

    By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

    "In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

    "The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
    .
    "This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

    "'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

    "Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

    "Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

  9. #ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

    While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

    Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

    By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

    "In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

    "The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
    .
    "This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

    "'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

    "Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

    "Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

  10. #ThackerPass #Protectors File First-Ever '#BiodiversityNecessityDefense' in #Nevada Court

    While pursuing a '#ClimateNecessityDefense,' and making allegations that #mining company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'

    Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “#LithiumNevada is a #greedy #corporation on the wrong side of history when it comes to #EnvironmentalRacism and desecration of #SacredSites. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”

    By #ProtectThackerPass, #CensoredNews, March 26, 2024

    "In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’

    "The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.
    .
    "This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of #ecocide and irreversible #ClimateChange.'

    "'We’re in the midst of the 6th #MassExtinction of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the #protesters. 'Our lives are made possible by #biodiversity and #ecosystems. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'

    "Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history.

    "Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse #sagebrush steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '#6thMassExtinction.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #ThackerPassProtectors #SLAPPs #SaveThackerPass #PeeheeMuhuh #Pauite #Shoshone #NoMining #LithiumMining #EarthDefenders

  11. CW: 8 Legged Friends

    I often think about my Rusyn roots and the folklore intertwined with it. I've never been a religious person, but there is a divine reverence for spiders which I entirely understand.

    The spider is seen as a protector. They eat the bugs that make life really difficult. I was taught to never kill a spider from a very early age because it was terrible bad luck, among other reasons. I let them be whenever I can until they have clearly vacated their web.

    Today, I am at a minor impasse. An amazing little spider (possibly juvenile orb spider?) has magically spun a web from the ceiling to the love seat and has already caught a fruit fly. I'm impressed, but they're also in the most awkward spot possible. I'm going to leave them while I can, to be relocated to a saner, but possibly less impressive spot when we finally need a couch. Too small to get a good focus on them, but beautiful and coppery orange. #spiders #protectors

  12. #VancouverIsland #vanisle #yyj #Wsanec #Wsanec #Lekwungen #CoastSalish #VictoriaBC I'm seeking leads to more #Indigenous / #NativeMastodon #Water #protectors for an upcoming independent print & online magazine (with mostly Indigenous & POC writers) article. I'd be doing the interviews & out in the field journalism, photography & writing the article for next issue. I can do interviews in person or online.

    Please contact me if you have leads for this. Thank you very much! Please boost.

  13. > ... #protest can be a many-splendored thing, a tool that achieves a multitude of goals...
    > Unexpected protests capture attention. #Myanmar held a “silent strike” to oppose the coup, emptying the streets instead of filling them. New Zealanders sent in the clowns to tell the Transport Agency to stop clowning around on climate. Puerto Ricans protected their beaches by holding beach parties against privatization.
    wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2023
    #Protectors #WagingNonViolence #PuertoRico

  14. @gregolear and then elon, the #EmeraldMuskRat entered the Frey, to muddy the waters, of course

    Life in Prison, in the Least, for donald j trump AND the #TrumpCrimeFamily (#Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors as well)

    Then work on elon in his flash Gordon/ rocketboy gear. 1st BOYCOTT the #MuskRat then some Sanctions & Seizures...

  15. @gregolear and then elon, the #EmeraldMuskRat entered the Frey, to muddy the waters, of course

    Life in Prison, in the Least, for donald j trump AND the #TrumpCrimeFamily (#Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors as well)

    Then work on elon in his flash Gordon/ rocketboy gear. 1st BOYCOTT the #MuskRat then some Sanctions & Seizures...

  16. @gregolear and then elon, the #EmeraldMuskRat entered the Frey, to muddy the waters, of course

    Life in Prison, in the Least, for donald j trump AND the #TrumpCrimeFamily (#Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors as well)

    Then work on elon in his flash Gordon/ rocketboy gear. 1st BOYCOTT the #MuskRat then some Sanctions & Seizures...

  17. @gregolear and then elon, the #EmeraldMuskRat entered the Frey, to muddy the waters, of course

    Life in Prison, in the Least, for donald j trump AND the #TrumpCrimeFamily (#Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors as well)

    Then work on elon in his flash Gordon/ rocketboy gear. 1st BOYCOTT the #MuskRat then some Sanctions & Seizures...

  18. @gregolear and then elon, the #EmeraldMuskRat entered the Frey, to muddy the waters, of course

    Life in Prison, in the Least, for donald j trump AND the #TrumpCrimeFamily (#Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors as well)

    Then work on elon in his flash Gordon/ rocketboy gear. 1st BOYCOTT the #MuskRat then some Sanctions & Seizures...

  19. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016

    Hey Kevin, you were right, They were, but after that...

    Prison for the Entire #TrumpCrimeFamily And ALL the #Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors of #PutinsBitch

  20. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016

    Hey Kevin, you were right, They were, but after that...

    Prison for the Entire #TrumpCrimeFamily And ALL the #Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors of #PutinsBitch

  21. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016

    Hey Kevin, you were right, They were, but after that...

    Prison for the Entire #TrumpCrimeFamily And ALL the #Enablers #Normalizers & #Protectors of #PutinsBitch

  22. The best option for the or is a (over 1600 Newton), protective from or , and a padded jacket. The combo can be enhanced with shin (with an articulated knee joint) and fencing pants. Since the forearms and elbows are often hit in , it is recommended to protect the elbow joints with additional plastic protectors.

    /3

  23. The best #sparring option for the #modern #battôjutsuka or #kenjutsuka is a #fencingMask (over 1600 Newton), protective #gloves from #Lacrosse or #HEMA, and a padded #fencing jacket. The combo can be enhanced with shin #protectors (with an articulated knee joint) and fencing pants. Since the forearms and elbows are often hit in #sparring, it is recommended to protect the elbow joints with additional plastic protectors.

    /3

    #samurai #bushi #japan

  24. The best #sparring option for the #modern #battôjutsuka or #kenjutsuka is a #fencingMask (over 1600 Newton), protective #gloves from #Lacrosse or #HEMA, and a padded #fencing jacket. The combo can be enhanced with shin #protectors (with an articulated knee joint) and fencing pants. Since the forearms and elbows are often hit in #sparring, it is recommended to protect the elbow joints with additional plastic protectors.

    /3

    #samurai #bushi #japan