• sunbytes@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I suspect it’s for intimidation.

    “Tacti-cool” gear.

    But he said he wanted to have a bigger gun than the other guy, and this is a great way to do it.

    I just did a quick Google and didn’t find any instances of Black Panthers ever opening fire on cops.

    Obviously that’s barely research but it’s good odds that it happened few enough times that it will take more more than 30s to find.

    To be clear, I’m on their side. I think adding peripherals to the guns to make them more intimidating is the exact kind of thing that will work on bullies.

    I just was entertained by it all. Getting down to the level of “big gun scarier than small gun” because they’re trying to communicate to really dumb, macho assholes.

    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I just did a quick Google and didn’t find any instances of Black Panthers ever opening fire on cops.

      Could be taken to mean that they’re actually effective, and none of the pigs were ever brave enough to fuck with them. Optimistic interpretation, anyway. I’m hoping that’s the case and it’ll still be true today, fingers crossed.