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Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government's servers have been hacked and 50,000 city police records leaked including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker that goes by the name @ox2Taylor claimed responsibility for the breach, which was confirmed by security intelligence analyst at Patch Penguin, Jamie-Luke Woodruff. He told the Daily Dot that the administrators of the website had failed to implement proper security measures. When the hacker first announced the hack, he accompanied the tweet with three hashtags revealing the motivation: #AltonSterling, #Hacked, and #BlackLivesMatters. "The reason i did it is because of what that officer did to alton sterling," Taylor told the Daily Dot in a private message. "i'm sick of seeing police abuse their power and all the killings."
Agreed. What people don't seem to understand is that pro-2nd amendment people do not think that their AR-15s (by the way, not an "assault rifle") will be able to hold off the military. The military has tanks, drones, and nukes. However, they're not going to use that stuff on their own soil unless the shit really hit the fan. If they did that, there would be little to nothing left for a tyrannical government to govern.
What the 2nd does do, is keep things like police-state door-to-door roundups and executions from happening. They won't do that if they know people can and will shoot back. We've already seen in the middle east (and before) how a giant and well-armed military can be held back by a small and determined group of fighters. At the end of the day, even for all the technology, wars are still won by men on the ground with rifles. (Shotguns and handguns don't cut it, they aren't effective over long distances, and most real life battles take place over 100+ yards, not in Call of Duty-esq tiny maps.)
On another note, I find it interesting that we keep hearing in the news about this previously convicted sex offender who was illegally armed, had drugs, and was resisting arrest. Yet we don't hear so much about this poor fellow. Probably because he had his CC license and legal gun, and was lawfully exercising his constitutional right. If you ask me, this instance is much more indicative of racism in the police than Alton Sterling. Curious that the media drums up sympathy for the black criminal, but not the black responsibly and legally armed citizen.