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Armed Black Panthers exercising their 2nd amendment rights show up to defend their community in Philadelphia
429 upvotes, 58 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Armed Black Panthers exercising their 2nd amendment rights show up to defend their community in Philadelphia"
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Anonymous 3w

Fun fact: the Black Panthers using open carry laws in response to police brutality in the 60s is the main reason Ronald Regan signed gun control legislation as Governor of California

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Anonymous 3w

Yes

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Anonymous 3w

Paul Birdsong my goat

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Anonymous 3w

The sad thing is the last time the black panthers did something like this was also the last time any level of significant gun control legislation had been passed.

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Anonymous 3w

They’ve always hated this

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Anonymous 3w

Is this a recent thing?

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Anonymous 3w

It’s cool but also sad to have something reminiscent of the black panthers back…

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Anonymous 3w

They’re both ethnonationalists

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Anonymous 3w

Idk how we are equating Kyle going to protect local businesses is the same as these losers. Protecting illegals from law enforcement 🙈

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 3w

It is, new chapters have been started in a few states now

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

I mean like have they been interacting with ice at all? And is there somewhere to read abt this?

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 3w

Can’t link 🔗 it in comments but google “Philadelphia chapter of Black Panther Party provides support amid tension between public and ICE”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

I’m dumb asf just saw you already posted the screenshot below 💀 thx 🙏

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

It’s never been about exercising your 2nd amendment rights, it’s been about controlling who does exercise it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

you can post the link and ppl can screenshot and then copy the text that way

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

The Black Panthers were never a Black Nationalist movement

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

“We’re not gonna fight racism with racism, we’re gonna fight it with solidarity” —Fred Hampton

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Yes it was dude, you are literally fucking brain dead, how are you ALWAYS WRONG https://archive.org/details/upagainstwallvio00aust

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Fred fucking Hampton did not found the Black Panthers you idiot

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

I never said that he did, dipshit

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

THEN WHY ARE YOU QUOTING ONE DUDE WHO GOT MURKED AS THE MAIN GOALS OF THE PARTY THAT HE DIDNT EVEN CREATE

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Both Huey Newton and Bobby Seale were inspired by Malcolm X’s black nationalism and left the AAA to found their own party because it wasn’t ethnonationalistic enough

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

Is there a page # you’d like me to reference here?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

https://thegrio.com/2026/01/15/philadelphia-chapter-of-black-panther-party-provides-support-amid-tension-between-public-and-ice/

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/philadelphia-chapter-black-panther-party-164000656.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJUt8qkXG5KC9FH-XXgOeASdjusFAFTN19MShSxSXDvCqjvG7UghnVksoP9iMiWJeZN0NW8lFLJMUTHxfGBOGFScKkfWsZBTQ9NUZCfWWRtU5PwHQRNHIkpq_Nkh0R1JjFj9NtkOATl8MEUkVXj5oR8xZgvnEsECINrHlRgs0gpY

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

The BPP allowed white membership even. And all do that aside. It is ridiculous to equate Black nationalism to white nationalism. One is a reaction to centuries of colonialism and oppression, the other seeks to maintain those systems. It is a dishonest comparison

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 3w

🫵😂 this guy thinks murderous wannabe-cop-vigilantes who travel dozens of miles to seek out armed conflict are morally superior to non-violent men open carrying in their own communities

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

Kyle wasn’t violent until he was attacked. Good try tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 3w

traveling dozens of miles for 4 hours with an assault rifle to an area with tension and civil unrest to provide "protection" when that is neither your job nor your jurisdiction nor your community is 1000% violent. he is a violent agitator

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

You are just trying to make justifications as to why it’s ok for them to do it while Kyle can’t. Last time I checked, it’s still America.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 3w

"do it" do what exactly? open carry? shoot people? be clear

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Black nationalism was started by racist white people because they didn’t want slavery but they also didn’t want servile insurrection or race war so they said “give them land in Africa and get them out of America” so the Black Panthers allowing whites doesn’t really disprove their ethnonationalism. Your comment also proves my point that you think ethnonationalism is only okay for certain ethnicities, rather than wrong and oppressive in every instance. You are a hypocrite and a buffoon.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

It was one of the first gun laws and guess what lol it was never about public safety it was always about control.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

This is false.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

“Assault Rifle”

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

Both of them can do it they both have legal open carry. And Kyle was not in a state where you have the duty to retreat, but it was not a stand your ground state. Both activities are protected by the bill of rights. Not just the person you like more. These are not privileges they are rights.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3w

Bruen (2022) held that a gun law is constitutional only if it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. What it replaced: Courts previously used a two-step, interest-balancing test that weighed public safety against individual rights. Bruen rejected that approach entirely—no means-end scrutiny.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3w

When defending a gun law, the government must show The Second Amendment covers the conduct, and The law is supported by a historical analogue from the Founding era or early 19th century. If no historical analogue exists, the law is unconstitutional.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Do you think this counts as a historical tradition of firearm regulation?

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3w

historically, this is correct.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

That may be true but the Minnesota government doesn’t like anyone exercising their rights so those guys better have an open carry permit otherwise that’s a felony

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3w

wasn’t Kyle like 17y/o and couldn’t have legally purchased that firearm even if he wanted to? so like.. therefore in possession of a firearm, in another state from his residence, that he wouldn’t otherwise be able to legally obtain?

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 3w

Not in the same way it was now they only want the police and the politicians security to have guns.

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3w

Minnesota does not have permitless open carry so those fellas better have permits otherwise that’s a felony

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 3w

He was from IL as well which has a FOID law for further (unconstitutional) restrictions purchasing firearms. However, I believe the justification is that he was under Wisconsin laws, and those state that teenagers can be allowed to carry weapons under the supervision of adults, and initially, he was under their supervision, until the chaos started. Believe me, if there was an issue with him carrying that rifle, it would’ve been brought up in trial.

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 3w

yeah i told #8 to be clear because open carry is fine - but that's not all kyle did. i don't like them or him cuz idk any of them. i'm stating the obvious that kyle (a person who traveled for 4 hours with a gun to an area with civil unrest) is morally inferior to non-violent men exercising their 2nd amendment rights in their own community

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

it had nothing to do with supervision

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w
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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

He did not travel for four hours? I know both areas in which he lived and I lived a few miles from where this took place. He was from just over the border north of Chicago, even more north than Gurnee, and Kenosha is like the first town you get into when you cross the border on I-94. He was so close that he lived in IL and worked in WI *as a teenager*, so you know the commute has to be small. That’s how even got into the situation in the first place- he was defending his workplace, supposedly.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

Like I just looked up the distance from his town to Kenosha and it is about 20 miles. 33 km. Not far

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

Defending your job is the lamest shit ever. “Oh no, my boss is gonna be sad!” Get real.

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Oh my fucking god do you have a life at all outside of being loud and stupid? You show up on every single post saying moronic bullshit. If his workplace got broken into or god forbid burnt down, he could’ve been out of a job. He had already lost one job during the pandemic in his home county. You don’t actually care about the working class at all.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

i didn't mean he traveled from A to B in four hours. it's like 30 minutes away. he went to kenosha and stayed overnight the day before he went out murdering. he was roaming *around* for several hours

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

also it was NOT his workplace. he did not work there

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

Well he wouldn’t have done a good job protecting the local businesses in the area if he drove up there and stayed for 5 minutes? My issue with it is that he’s a 17 year old and his parents were negligent by letting him do that, and THEY should’ve been the ones charged. However, he was a minor and isn’t the left the same people who say “a 22 year old college graduate can’t consent to a 26 year old because their brain isn’t as developed” like he did not have the proper mental capacity

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 3w

what the actual fuck are you talking about kid? you're losing the thread he was old enough to drive himself down there with an AR to provide what he thought were paid protection services to a business. wisconsin law does not charge 17 year olds as minors. him AND his parents should be behind bars

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 3w

He was not under the assumption that he would be paid and he was in IL when he made the decision to go there, and IL would charge him as a minor. If the crime was showing up he should’ve been charged in IL because the majority of that trip AND the decision were on the IL side

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