To get back to the topic.
Yes, it does seem, like KJK has drifted or decided to go right, that Glinner, after his experience in the UK both public and private, has just lost faith, or sucked into a strand of US politics.
But it is possible to make a note of this, as with KJK, of this turn of events.
Which doesn't mean that the work that either of them have done in high lighting the harm to women by TRAs hasn't been positive.
As to the incident itself, as most of us being UK based have not had experience of living in a country where "officials" have guns, I really dont think any of us should make bold statements about how to behave.
But worse still, is to try and negate the experience relayed in posts from those of us on FWR who have lived with that.
And not only that, even though they are fewer, just how many examples are there in the UK where armed police have been sent out and what seems like 9 times out of 10, when they do end up shooting someone, investigations then reveal there was a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the movement(s) of the person being confronted.
Added to which, as others have said, if I say a man with a gun I would comply because I have absolutely no faith in the male brain, hyped up with power, doing the right thing.
How can any of us as women, not have this thought in their head?
Surely anyone who has gone of a demo, thinking it will be peaceful know that things can spiral out of control.
And without victim blaming, but given the circumstances of hostile (and that is what Trump intends by putting them there) ICE agents who will have been groomed (sorry "trained") to see protestors as the enemy, would you as co-mothers of a 6 year old put yourself forward to confront ICE.
I totally support people's right to demonstrate, but - and this probably or usually makes women more than men hesitate - would you take the risk of violence (from ICE) and go on a demonstration with the knowledge that you might never go home and your child/ren become orphan/s.
I am asking this, not to place any blame on Renee Nicole Good (or her wife), but given that many on FWR say how they wouldn't risk being publicly GC at work for fear of getting the sack, would you go on a demo confronting armed representatives of the state?
Just to be clear, and to repeat myself. He should NOT have shot her.
He should not have been on duty as it appears it was known he still had PTSD.
But this is the world we live in today, magnified in MAGA America.
And in fact whether a mother or not, would you go on a demo where there is a high likelihood of violence?