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Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

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628 points nodea2345 | 1 comments | 01 Oct 19 11:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.191s | source
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nvahalik ◴[01 Oct 19 13:30 UTC] No.21125093[source]▶
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

This is why we have the second amendment. And the constitution as the thing to which office-holders swear allegiance to rather than to "the party" or "the president".

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kristiandupont ◴[01 Oct 19 13:36 UTC] No.21125139[source]▶
If HK'ers had a similar right to carry guns, do you honestly believe that they would be any better off right now?
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mc32 ◴[01 Oct 19 13:41 UTC] No.21125201[source]▶
It’s uncertain what the eventual outcome would be, but one thing is for sure, it would increase the threshold before the tanks rolled in.
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empath75 ◴[01 Oct 19 14:33 UTC] No.21125711[source]▶
If they were armed this would have been over a long time ago. China would have gone in with tanks and the army, or even air strikes. Once you take up arms against the government that’s not a protest, that’s a civil war.
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hokumguru ◴[01 Oct 19 14:48 UTC] No.21125875[source]▶
The world would react quite brutally I imagine to another massacre from China - especially one on this potential scale.
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1. Andrex ◴[01 Oct 19 15:07 UTC] No.21126124[source]▶
They successfully swept Tiananmen Square under the rug without much internal fuss, so I wouldn't underestimate the Chinese state in this regard.

Also, "the world" is too homogeneous a group to predict it would all simultaneously go after China for some single incident.

Who is in the world? What would their motivations be for "reacting" to China? And more importantly, what counter-motivations exist that could sway them from doing so?

If you take all this into account, you'll find the group willing to go "against" China for anything is actually very small.

Edit- Added section responding to the "world" comment.