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If guns ensured the safety of minorities, why isn't America the safest country in the world for minorities? Instead, those minorities are threatened and hunted by legal gun owners.
Insisting that those minorities follow your example and surround themselves with poorly secured firearms at all times is not only deeply fucked in the head, it doesn't even work.
Someone who wants to kill (which to put bluntly, sounds like it includes you) will always have the advantage over someone being forced to kill.
All armed minorities does is gives far-right extremists the excuse they need to execute undesirables, a realisation the police have been taking full advantage of.
Oh and of course funnel profits to the gun lobby, which is undoubtedly the origin of these kinds of self-aggrandising social media posts from "liberals".
You're not a hero. You're a product of systemic failure and a for-profit industry advertising itself as the solution, like the tobacco companies telling people smoking was good for asthma.
The people you're pretending to protect would be safer in countries with gun laws you oppose. Put your guns in a safe and grow up.