ID: 4 panels:

  1. A self righteous person holds their hand up and says “Violence is never the solution.”

  2. Stephie replies with a smile “Oh! So you agree that we shouldn’t give weapons to the police?”

  3. She adds “And that we should dismantle the army?”

  4. Stephie is now right up behind the other person, looking angry, saying “Or did you mean that violence is only a solution when it helps maintain the status quo?”. The other person looks deeply uncomfortable.

Credit: Sophie Labelle

  • cacheson 🏴🔁🍊@piefed.socialEnglish
    127·
    1 day ago

    It drives me fucking mad when people arguing for total civilian disarmament double down with “well I think the cops should be disarmed too 😏😏😏”. My Sibling In Christ, what do you think is going to happen when you advocate for total disarmament of civilians and police? Civilians are going to be disarmed first, and then cops are going to be disarmed NEVER.

    I know the comic isn’t just about guns, but this is one instance of that larger pattern.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      72·
      1 day ago

      … y’all know there’s other countries, right? And that in those countries there’s cops? A lot of those cops genuinely do not carry guns, because neither does anyone else.

      Police in Iceland shot a guy for the first time ever in 2013.

      Even in US-adjacent Canadia, the Parliament Hill shooting saw a mountie go back to his office, retrieve a gun from a locked safe, and return to the scene to kill the shooter.

      We can have police who aren’t eternally three seconds away from putting a bullet in someone’s brain. In what universe is that less achievable than abolishing them completely?

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I know the comic isn’t just about guns, but this is one instance of that larger pattern.

      The comic (or this community) isn’t about civilian disarmament at all