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Doesn't have to be a gun.
What, carry a knife do you can stab a car?
Knife, pepper spray, taser, air gun, brass knuckles, monkey fist... There's lots of options if you can't or don't want to carry a gun. But you unless you can fight, you shouldn't go unarmed.
This is assuming OP is in the US. Right now they should be taking any racially-charged threats very seriously, as fascists are becoming more and more emboldened. If OP's aggressor decides to escalate things and get physical, camera isn't going to do much when the police and the courts are on the other side, anyway. Other than make for a really depressing snuff film.
Unless OP lives in a civilized country. In which case, maybe keep a really good flashlight with you on your walks, too.
til what a monkey fist is
And thanks, i've dealt with this my entire life watching others just walk by and say nothing. So, at this point, it's just getting tiresome.
If the police and courts are stacked against you having a weapon is just going to increase your jail sentence.
Ask any minority in the US about that.
That's a fair point.
But if its either prison or getting lynched by a white supremacist, you shouldn't go down without a fight.
Violence is never the answer.
Maybe, but sometimes you don't get to decide that. Sometimes, somebody else makes that choice for you.
That's not.
I’m a pacifist so it doesn’t matter if you think it’s a fair point or not.
Does the truth matter to you? It matters to me.
Violence and truth are not mutually exclusive things so I don’t see why that matters.
Do you mean violent statements are not true statements? If a person says, "I'm gonna break your legs because you didn't pay me," is that statement untrue because it is violent? Or perhaps do you mean that violence and truth are independent of one another, that violence is a quality of actions and truth is a quality of statements, that they are not inclusive of each other in that way? Or should I take the surface-level interpretation and say that truth is not compatible with violence- that being violent negates truth in some way and being truthful prevents violence?
Violence and truthfulness are independent of each other.
I'm gonna leave it here for tonight, SMCF. It's been nice chatting.
True. But it's either that, or whatever the racist yokel intercepting you on your next walk has in store for you.
With one option, you get a public defender, at the very least. The other option, your next of kin gets a really somber phone call. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.