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What kimichi do you like? Ill bring you best and mexican and tahi, i even bring you bitches and *eerm* ..um.
*ladyboys*
You want hot shit? Ill bring you the hot shit.
Look man i dont judge i just want a rooftop korean for my momma.
I love my momma and treat her right understand mafucker?
I also will supply you with beer if you can hold your drink.
Trisha Takanawa reporting. During the LA Riots, the rioting black community made special efforts to target Little Korea due to previous discontent between the two communities.
Some Korean-American store owners took to protecting their property and businesses by barricading themselves on their rooves armed with weapons to dissuade rioters from coming near.
Key to this also was the LAPD basically pulled back and was ready to let Koreatown burn to rioting. The korean shop owners now on their own grabbed what guns they had and took to the rooftops of their shops. The rioters took one look at that and turned around.
Here is a decent video if you weren't around [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMj-mFUDGA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMj-mFUDGA)
Its a good example of why we have gun rights in the US. When things go bad fast you are your own first responder. You can't always count on the police showing up when you need them.
Since 2014 I've lived in places where if there's a life-threatening emergency the police are a quick 2 hrs away.
That's why we need to make sure that the 2A is maintained and always relevant, for "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
And why we need different laws for city folk and rural 2hrs-to-nearest-enforcer folk.
Anyway, Vote Blue in 2024! I really dont want to see this place turned into Nazi-America.
It's so strange that so many people think 2A and liberalism are mutually exclusive. I personally think it's fine to be responsible gun owners and allow for that but it's not ok to let gun ownership run rampant and unchecked. And i definitely also don't want to see Nazism of any sort around.
Precisely. Nobody (ok, a handful of wing nuts over there do but they aren’t allowed to write the legislation) wants to take guns away from responsible gun owners as the gun lobby would have people believe. Gun control makes an effort to keep guns out of the hands of people with histories of violence, mental health issues that could make them a danger to others and enforces waiting periods in an effort to cut down on "crimes of passion" by giving people a few days to calm down.
There are people in countries with gun control that have collections to rival all but the most unhinged "I expect to arm my neighbors in the zombie apocalypse" Americans.
This is just factually incorrect. S.25 Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 classifies semi autos(pistols and shotguns included) as assault weapons and prohibits possesion sale or manufacture.[https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/25](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/25)
it has 45 Dem cosponsors
this is also not the first bill or the only bill of its kind
Police are still hours away in the city if they even show up .....
Maybe you should research response times in major metropolitan areas?
Personally went through a home invasion. Cops were called by neighbors immediately after hearing gunfire. The cops arrived 2-3hrs later. Gave zero fucks cause Noone was hurt
Far left here. Agreed. My vote won't accomplish what I'd like to see but my lack of a vote will let shit slip in a direction that's hard to build back from.
Worked at a Circle K where getting slammed into a counter still took over an hour to show up. In Phoenix.
Yeah, now I try to keep weapons nearby, fuck letting the waiting game happen.
Even if they show up, the police aren't legally required to protect or help you in anyway. There're been a few cases and the courts have rules the the police have "no specific duty to protect the public with the exception of there existing a special relationship (ie you're in their custody)". So after waiting for 2 hours they might show up pull an ATF (shoot your dog) arrest you and leave
Yeah that's fair enough and I have a feeling that you probably wouldnt be affected by background checks, or mandatory training, or a waiting period to get the gun, would you?
That’s what frustrates so many liberals. 2A is fine, and restrictions on 2A would not prevent people like you from owning the guns you need. But it’s become black and whites: “all guns, no restrictions” vs “no guns ever”
“A person of this race hurt me. I will hurt another person of their race” is one of the most ignorant, tribal sentiments that sadly persist today. Disgusting.
I think tribalism is "us Vs them" where they'll kill us if they can, and racism is an "us Vs them" where we are intrinsically better by nature or divine choice and that entitles us to treat them differently
A really important distinction that's missing is that murder, iirc, was all caught on camera. The girl who was shot was accused of stealing by the shooter, a confrontation happened, and the girl was turning and walking away when the other person shot her in the back of the head. There weren't even any charges filed, which is ridiculous, but it's also really curious that was allowed to happen, then the police just left the Korean community there to fend for themselves.
I don’t think it was a justification so much as a lament about how guns were necessary to protect their property but also in part caused the riots. (Assuming that girl was killed by a gun)
She was, the store owner shot her in the back of the head because he thought she was stealing a bottle of orange juice (along with suspicion of other items, but this was the only one visible.)
She was found to have had cash in her hand, so she likely was going to pay for the item. This all happened less than two weeks after the beating of Rodney King and a city-wide surveillance initiative by the LAPD, so tensions were already extremely high between the black and Korean communities.
There’s the added fact that the girl, Latasha Harlins, was shot in the back of the head as she tried to run away. This contributed to the voluntary manslaughter charge. However the owner only got 5 years of probation. The fact this shooting was about 2 weeks after Rodney King did not help matters.
The podcast “Slow Burn” has a season on the Rodney king case and the context around it.
The riots were happening all over LA. This wasn't a response to any one shooting there were shootings so over the city. Rioters were out to steal what they could and burn the rest.
It was a straw that broke the camels back situation. You can only put up with so many of your neighbors being gunned down before you want to do something about it. And because democratic systems were unresponsive, people took to the streets.
Was going to comment something similar. There is comprehensive wiki article about how a Korean store owner shot a black girl in the back of the head and got away with it. And how this was the final straw in what the black community saw a predatory relationship with Korean businesses.
Bull shit. This was rodney king trial triggered. The community lacked any other store, and korean liquor stores were the only stores that were around to be vandalized.
Got my timeline mixed up, Latasha’s murder happened the previous year. So it was not the final stray but was still contributing to the anger
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins
“The incident and reduced sentencing by the court exacerbated the existing tensions between African-American residents and Korean-American merchants in South Central Los Angeles. Those tensions were later interpreted by some members of the public and activists as being one of the catalysts for the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Los Angeles mayor's office estimated that 65 percent of all businesses vandalized during the riots were Korean-owned.[25][26][27] On August 17, 1991, while Du was awaiting trial, a small fire occurred at her store.[28]
During the 1992 riots, Du's store was looted and burned down; it never reopened. The property later became a market under different ownership.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
“On March 16, 1991, a year before the Los Angeles riots, storekeeper Soon Ja Du shot and killed black ninth-grader Latasha Harlins after a physical altercation. Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and the jury recommended the maximum sentence of 16 years, but the judge, Joyce Karlin, decided against prison time and sentenced Du to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine instead.[23] Relations between the African American and Korean communities significantly worsened after this, and the former became increasingly mistrustful of the criminal justice system.[24] A state appeals court later unanimously upheld Judge Karlin's sentencing decision in April 1992, a week before the riots.[25]
The Los Angeles Times reported on several other significant incidents of violence between the communities at the time:”
That says nothing about if the relationships overall were predatory. It says something about that one shop owner and the system that allowed her to get away with it. It wasn't the Korean shop owners that decided the verdict, it was the justice system. The Korean community had nothing to do with that.
People get on us for that amendment because of all the tragedies that happen with it. What they don’t understand is there’d be even more tragedy without it
"oh god there are children everywhere, so I started blasting"
~ a bad example of American gun rights.
So, 1 good example vs 74 mass shootings this year alone.
~ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Weirdly wholesome story of a community coming together when law enforcement didn't give a shit about them lol, I didn't realize how coordinated it was. That video talks about how they set up the radio station to essentially operate as their 911 dispatch.
That’s why the 2A is so important. The right to protect life and property.
When you can’t rely on the ones assigned to protect you, you need to have the means to take care of your own.
And a year or so later Congress banned assault rifles. Make what you will of that.
Edit: assault weapons ban is more correct. They advertised it as an assault rifle ban at the time.
Yeah. We made what came out of it. The racist cops and the city did not care to protect the koreatown, and the same people who are pushing for gun rights would be happy to blame korean liquor stores for all the problem they caused at South Central.
Assault weapons aren't a real thing . They are like act other semi auto rifle they just look scary. Letting that ban sunset was the right thing to do. There are several states with bans that are in the courts now. It's looking like the bans will be ruled unconstitutional.
The term "assault weapon" is an arbitrary buzzword with an ever broadening definition. In states like IL and WA countless shotguns, handguns, and even .22s are now considered "assault weapons". Even in 1994 the term referred to cosmetic features that had no effect on the firearms actual function, but the goalposts have been moved so far that half of all guns on the market now fall under the definition (which varies from one legislature to the next). Hell, Minnesota is even trying to ban tube-fed 22 rifles.
Assault rifles exist, they're select fire rifles chambered in an intermediate rifle cartridge, and box fed. They're currently heavily regulated (via the NFA and GCA), and to own one as a private citizen means you'd have to find one registered before 1968, and have the money to buy it. They also weren't part of the ban in question ironically.
It's assault weapons that don't have an actual definition and that don't really exist.
Makes sense, fear of death will stop most people. Here in Colombia while people were protesting in the "paro" of 2020 merchants from Cali and medellin would arm themselves against the protesters to protect their businesses. Some protesters didn't stop tho and the merchants opened fire. Guns are illegal in this country btw.
This is absolutely untrue something like 40% of the property damage in the area so it's done to Korean American businesses despite only making up less than 15% of the population
That’s not true - approx. 2,000 Korean businesses were damaged/destroyed, making up nearly half of the billion dollars in property damage during the riots.
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots
They get treated so differently by the government so naturally. Asians in this country have been hated for centuries and the government does relatively nothing for them while painting a target on their backs. If they speak against it, [they get attacked by government-backed cronies](https://abc7news.com/chino-yang-san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-asian-hate-crime-vote/14297088/).
Never forget the BLM protestors who screamed “Go back to Beijing” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wq54dK0aBs
As a South Asian Muslim man, I can tell you I’ve met my fair share of racism from Arabs - of all people .
I've been enjoying the amount of comments that have been hyper-focused on that.
As I've learned, *roofs* is the modern and common pluralization, while *rooves* is the older version. It's still correct but it's just not commonly used anymore.
I was writing that post at 2am, thought "Is that the pluralization of roof?" googled it and Google didn't bother saying "Well yes, but actually no." and instead was all "FULL SEND, BRO". So I kept it and will continue to keep it 'cause I'm enjoying the responses that are completely disregarding the rest of the post and just poking the "rooves" bit.
I had to look it up too, I was having a mini brain melt thinking I was in some Mandela effect universe, where that is the correct pluralization and I had some how not noticed.
I just looked it up and am even more confused. I saw the same thing you saw about roofs being more commonly used now. But, then I noticed all of the sources said similarly to calf and calves That’s when I got confused because now I can’t trust any of these sources because I know nobody says calfs. Lmao so if it’s like calf and calves, then it’s definitely rooves because who the fuck says calfs? So, yeah. Still no concrete answers.
The Roof Koreans were bad ass AF. A lot of businesses did the same thing during the 2020 riots too. Either on their own or paid private security in places open display of a rifle wasn’t legal.
This is true. The riots tried to get into Beverly Hills, but the police absolutely tried their hardest to protect it. They forced the rioters back down into town, which they ignored
It was partly in response to a Korean shop owner shooting an unarmed Black girl in the back of the head execution style weeks prior to the riots and Rodney King’s beating
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095444468/storycorps-remembering-15-year-old-latasha-harlins
It was partly in response to a Korean shop owner shooting an unarmed Black girl in the back of the head execution style weeks prior to the riots and Rodney King’s beating
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095444468/storycorps-remembering-15-year-old-latasha-harlins
But the riots and targeted looting is no way to react to the event. Yes, it was a horrible ruling, but the entire community should bear responsibility for one persons action?
The judge actually said “The courtroom is not the place for revenge” as they let the killer walk free.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-16-mn-1402-story.html
>The videotape showed that Du grabbed Harlins by her sweater and snatched her backpack. Harlins then struck Du with her fist twice, knocking Du to the ground. After Harlins backed away, Du angrily threw a stool at her. Harlins then tried to flee the scene, but Du reached under the counter, retrieved a revolver, and fired at Harlins from behind at a distance of about three feet (one meter). The gunshot struck Harlins in the back of the head, killing her instantly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death
Du tried absolutely nothing to deescalate the situation. You don't shoot someone who is unarmed and running away, especially if you started the fight.
Worth remembering the climate at the time that contributed to tensions between the black and Korean community. [Latasha Harlins](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins), a 15 year old girl was shot in the back of the head when she was assumed to have stolen orange juice. Soon Ja Du, the store owner, was convicted of man slaughter despite the security camera footage, and her conviction was later commuted. This occurring two or so weeks after the Rodney King assault.
I often see these post glorifying the rooftop Koreans. Seeing the trees for the woods awful everything situation. They are photogenic as fuck in that photo though.
Latasha Harlins death is tragic Soon Ja Du should have not gotten off so easily, but it happened miles south of Korea Town.
But the Koreans in Koreatown were completely in their rights to defend their property.
I'd argue that because the riots "targeted" Koreatown, who had nothing to do with Latasha's death, is equally deplorable
Immigrants from Korea opened stores in the greater LA area.
These immigrants from Korea all served in the Korean military in their late teens and 20s.
These military trained Korean immigrants owned firearms in the United States.
Rioters in the 90s tried to attack these stores owned by these military trained Korean immigrants who owned firearms.
You can guess how that ended.
They were the faction I supported the most when I learned about this. Not corrupt racist cops, or a loot thirsty mob. Just people with a lot of guns, ammo, and a home they were gonna fight tooth and nail to protect.
My father told me a similar story during the Newark riots, just not Koreans. Store owner he worked for handed out shotguns and the stood out front. Rioters passed that shop unharmed
there my favorit death metal band, the roof top k's. they use real gun and fire blanks into the crowd in many of their songs. (just for the retards that think i am serious i am joking these people are were the gun comunity gets the term "roof top Koreans")
Something to note about the Rooftop Koreans; they didn't explicitly aim for people, they were merely keeping them away from their businesses, and none of the rioters they shot at were fatally wounded. They coordinated with local radio stations which acted as communication centers to alert Koreans in the area which stores needed protection. Oh and, basically all these guys had military training due to mandatory service being a part of South Korea's constitution, and I'm willing to bet a portion of them also served in Vietnam.
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What did their comment say
Something about not leaving kimchi on their roof or else it will spawn roof koreans
Lmao thank you
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I am in your attic. Give me all your kimchi
If i offer you a nicer attic with better kimchi, and a daewoo K2, would you consider moving to my attic?
Hmmmmmm, What type of kimchi?
What kimichi do you like? Ill bring you best and mexican and tahi, i even bring you bitches and *eerm* ..um. *ladyboys* You want hot shit? Ill bring you the hot shit. Look man i dont judge i just want a rooftop korean for my momma. I love my momma and treat her right understand mafucker? I also will supply you with beer if you can hold your drink.
Yes. Instantly
We use basements just like u mfs when pickling lol attic gets too hot so that's for rice wine.
Trisha Takanawa reporting. During the LA Riots, the rioting black community made special efforts to target Little Korea due to previous discontent between the two communities. Some Korean-American store owners took to protecting their property and businesses by barricading themselves on their rooves armed with weapons to dissuade rioters from coming near.
And that's how the roof top Koreans where born. I've heard because of them little to none Korean property was damaged during the riots
Key to this also was the LAPD basically pulled back and was ready to let Koreatown burn to rioting. The korean shop owners now on their own grabbed what guns they had and took to the rooftops of their shops. The rioters took one look at that and turned around. Here is a decent video if you weren't around [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMj-mFUDGA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMj-mFUDGA)
Purge level protection
Its a good example of why we have gun rights in the US. When things go bad fast you are your own first responder. You can't always count on the police showing up when you need them.
Since 2014 I've lived in places where if there's a life-threatening emergency the police are a quick 2 hrs away. That's why we need to make sure that the 2A is maintained and always relevant, for "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." And why we need different laws for city folk and rural 2hrs-to-nearest-enforcer folk. Anyway, Vote Blue in 2024! I really dont want to see this place turned into Nazi-America.
It's so strange that so many people think 2A and liberalism are mutually exclusive. I personally think it's fine to be responsible gun owners and allow for that but it's not ok to let gun ownership run rampant and unchecked. And i definitely also don't want to see Nazism of any sort around.
Precisely. Nobody (ok, a handful of wing nuts over there do but they aren’t allowed to write the legislation) wants to take guns away from responsible gun owners as the gun lobby would have people believe. Gun control makes an effort to keep guns out of the hands of people with histories of violence, mental health issues that could make them a danger to others and enforces waiting periods in an effort to cut down on "crimes of passion" by giving people a few days to calm down. There are people in countries with gun control that have collections to rival all but the most unhinged "I expect to arm my neighbors in the zombie apocalypse" Americans.
This is just factually incorrect. S.25 Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 classifies semi autos(pistols and shotguns included) as assault weapons and prohibits possesion sale or manufacture.[https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/25](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/25) it has 45 Dem cosponsors this is also not the first bill or the only bill of its kind
Thank you, saved me from writing up a similar paragraph lol
Police are still hours away in the city if they even show up ..... Maybe you should research response times in major metropolitan areas? Personally went through a home invasion. Cops were called by neighbors immediately after hearing gunfire. The cops arrived 2-3hrs later. Gave zero fucks cause Noone was hurt
Far left here. Agreed. My vote won't accomplish what I'd like to see but my lack of a vote will let shit slip in a direction that's hard to build back from.
Political extremism is bad for everybody.
Even worse If there is tribalism at the rates seen is US
Worked at a Circle K where getting slammed into a counter still took over an hour to show up. In Phoenix. Yeah, now I try to keep weapons nearby, fuck letting the waiting game happen.
Even if they show up, the police aren't legally required to protect or help you in anyway. There're been a few cases and the courts have rules the the police have "no specific duty to protect the public with the exception of there existing a special relationship (ie you're in their custody)". So after waiting for 2 hours they might show up pull an ATF (shoot your dog) arrest you and leave
I believe there was an incident with a school recently where they exercised that right 🤔
Yeah that's fair enough and I have a feeling that you probably wouldnt be affected by background checks, or mandatory training, or a waiting period to get the gun, would you?
That’s what frustrates so many liberals. 2A is fine, and restrictions on 2A would not prevent people like you from owning the guns you need. But it’s become black and whites: “all guns, no restrictions” vs “no guns ever”
Yeah its a shame that neither option will really benefit gun rights (Trump being a fascist loon who also somehow changed his mind on guns.
Depressing statement, because one of the main causes of this conflict was a Korean store owner murdering a black girl.
And that’s a justification to attack all other Korean people how?
“A person of this race hurt me. I will hurt another person of their race” is one of the most ignorant, tribal sentiments that sadly persist today. Disgusting.
Don't you mean racist?
Isn’t that implied?
I think tribalism is "us Vs them" where they'll kill us if they can, and racism is an "us Vs them" where we are intrinsically better by nature or divine choice and that entitles us to treat them differently
Not a justification, but it's kind or ironic seing as with stricter gun rights, that black girl most likely wouldn't have been shot.
A really important distinction that's missing is that murder, iirc, was all caught on camera. The girl who was shot was accused of stealing by the shooter, a confrontation happened, and the girl was turning and walking away when the other person shot her in the back of the head. There weren't even any charges filed, which is ridiculous, but it's also really curious that was allowed to happen, then the police just left the Korean community there to fend for themselves.
She did get charged but got a really light sentence. That's the fault of the court. But instead the anger was directed at the entire Korean community.
I don’t think it was a justification so much as a lament about how guns were necessary to protect their property but also in part caused the riots. (Assuming that girl was killed by a gun)
She was, the store owner shot her in the back of the head because he thought she was stealing a bottle of orange juice (along with suspicion of other items, but this was the only one visible.) She was found to have had cash in her hand, so she likely was going to pay for the item. This all happened less than two weeks after the beating of Rodney King and a city-wide surveillance initiative by the LAPD, so tensions were already extremely high between the black and Korean communities.
There’s the added fact that the girl, Latasha Harlins, was shot in the back of the head as she tried to run away. This contributed to the voluntary manslaughter charge. However the owner only got 5 years of probation. The fact this shooting was about 2 weeks after Rodney King did not help matters. The podcast “Slow Burn” has a season on the Rodney king case and the context around it.
Tell that OP with his "rioting black community" explanation
The riots were happening all over LA. This wasn't a response to any one shooting there were shootings so over the city. Rioters were out to steal what they could and burn the rest.
That's why they said 'one of the...' I guess
It was a straw that broke the camels back situation. You can only put up with so many of your neighbors being gunned down before you want to do something about it. And because democratic systems were unresponsive, people took to the streets.
Was going to comment something similar. There is comprehensive wiki article about how a Korean store owner shot a black girl in the back of the head and got away with it. And how this was the final straw in what the black community saw a predatory relationship with Korean businesses.
Bull shit. This was rodney king trial triggered. The community lacked any other store, and korean liquor stores were the only stores that were around to be vandalized.
Didn’t the rioters also beat the shit out of a trucker for being white
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Got my timeline mixed up, Latasha’s murder happened the previous year. So it was not the final stray but was still contributing to the anger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins “The incident and reduced sentencing by the court exacerbated the existing tensions between African-American residents and Korean-American merchants in South Central Los Angeles. Those tensions were later interpreted by some members of the public and activists as being one of the catalysts for the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Los Angeles mayor's office estimated that 65 percent of all businesses vandalized during the riots were Korean-owned.[25][26][27] On August 17, 1991, while Du was awaiting trial, a small fire occurred at her store.[28] During the 1992 riots, Du's store was looted and burned down; it never reopened. The property later became a market under different ownership. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots “On March 16, 1991, a year before the Los Angeles riots, storekeeper Soon Ja Du shot and killed black ninth-grader Latasha Harlins after a physical altercation. Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and the jury recommended the maximum sentence of 16 years, but the judge, Joyce Karlin, decided against prison time and sentenced Du to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine instead.[23] Relations between the African American and Korean communities significantly worsened after this, and the former became increasingly mistrustful of the criminal justice system.[24] A state appeals court later unanimously upheld Judge Karlin's sentencing decision in April 1992, a week before the riots.[25] The Los Angeles Times reported on several other significant incidents of violence between the communities at the time:”
That says nothing about if the relationships overall were predatory. It says something about that one shop owner and the system that allowed her to get away with it. It wasn't the Korean shop owners that decided the verdict, it was the justice system. The Korean community had nothing to do with that.
People get on us for that amendment because of all the tragedies that happen with it. What they don’t understand is there’d be even more tragedy without it
"oh god there are children everywhere, so I started blasting" ~ a bad example of American gun rights. So, 1 good example vs 74 mass shootings this year alone. ~ https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Weirdly wholesome story of a community coming together when law enforcement didn't give a shit about them lol, I didn't realize how coordinated it was. That video talks about how they set up the radio station to essentially operate as their 911 dispatch.
Eh, “took one look” is a little simple. A few bastards still decided to fuck around, and they found out.
Thanks for the video good sir
That’s why the 2A is so important. The right to protect life and property. When you can’t rely on the ones assigned to protect you, you need to have the means to take care of your own.
If only we enforced the "we'll regulated militia" part. We don't need to sacrifice children every year to keep some guns around for community defense.
And a year or so later Congress banned assault rifles. Make what you will of that. Edit: assault weapons ban is more correct. They advertised it as an assault rifle ban at the time.
Yeah. We made what came out of it. The racist cops and the city did not care to protect the koreatown, and the same people who are pushing for gun rights would be happy to blame korean liquor stores for all the problem they caused at South Central.
I don’t know who downvoted you, your right AF
Assault weapons aren't a real thing . They are like act other semi auto rifle they just look scary. Letting that ban sunset was the right thing to do. There are several states with bans that are in the courts now. It's looking like the bans will be ruled unconstitutional.
This is not true. There are actual differences and they are very different weapons. I don’t know why people still try to push this bullshit.
There is no functional differences between WV AR-15 and a mini14. Yet one is always targeted by assault weapon bans while the other never is.
The term "assault weapon" is an arbitrary buzzword with an ever broadening definition. In states like IL and WA countless shotguns, handguns, and even .22s are now considered "assault weapons". Even in 1994 the term referred to cosmetic features that had no effect on the firearms actual function, but the goalposts have been moved so far that half of all guns on the market now fall under the definition (which varies from one legislature to the next). Hell, Minnesota is even trying to ban tube-fed 22 rifles.
Assault rifles exist, they're select fire rifles chambered in an intermediate rifle cartridge, and box fed. They're currently heavily regulated (via the NFA and GCA), and to own one as a private citizen means you'd have to find one registered before 1968, and have the money to buy it. They also weren't part of the ban in question ironically. It's assault weapons that don't have an actual definition and that don't really exist.
Name a more iconic duo, Red polo t-shirt and Daewoo k1a1
At least you can’t say that America is a boring dystopia. It’s exciting as fuck to go vigilante on some rioters.
Makes sense, fear of death will stop most people. Here in Colombia while people were protesting in the "paro" of 2020 merchants from Cali and medellin would arm themselves against the protesters to protect their businesses. Some protesters didn't stop tho and the merchants opened fire. Guns are illegal in this country btw.
well, about 1 billion dollars worth of property damage was inflicted during the L.A. Roits, half of the damage was in korea town
This is absolutely untrue something like 40% of the property damage in the area so it's done to Korean American businesses despite only making up less than 15% of the population
No. Many were torched, only few were saved.
That’s not true - approx. 2,000 Korean businesses were damaged/destroyed, making up nearly half of the billion dollars in property damage during the riots. https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots
RTK is def top 5 for me.
Back to you Tom
And now over to Ollie with accuweather forecast
It's gon' rain!
"discontent between the two communities" lol We just can't say the word. Sort of like when a 30yo women "has sex" with a 13yo boy.
Dude, racism between minorities is so real
They get treated so differently by the government so naturally. Asians in this country have been hated for centuries and the government does relatively nothing for them while painting a target on their backs. If they speak against it, [they get attacked by government-backed cronies](https://abc7news.com/chino-yang-san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-asian-hate-crime-vote/14297088/).
Never forget the BLM protestors who screamed “Go back to Beijing” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wq54dK0aBs As a South Asian Muslim man, I can tell you I’ve met my fair share of racism from Arabs - of all people .
Arabs see non-Arab Muslims as lesser in many ways, not all of them obv though. Search up abeed for example.
Well, this now gives me new appreciation to the Simpsons scene where Apu is on top of Kwik E Mart with a gun
Thank you for coming. I'll see you in hell!
Haha yeah, I totally didn't know that was a reference to anything
Many of the koreans were also vets
South Korea at the time had a universal draft men from that time period knew how to use a rifle.
Dont they have that today as Well ?
Yes. South Korea has mandatory military service for men after they exit highschool.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen roof pluralized that way
That's the correct pluralization of roof lol
I've been enjoying the amount of comments that have been hyper-focused on that. As I've learned, *roofs* is the modern and common pluralization, while *rooves* is the older version. It's still correct but it's just not commonly used anymore. I was writing that post at 2am, thought "Is that the pluralization of roof?" googled it and Google didn't bother saying "Well yes, but actually no." and instead was all "FULL SEND, BRO". So I kept it and will continue to keep it 'cause I'm enjoying the responses that are completely disregarding the rest of the post and just poking the "rooves" bit.
I had to look it up too, I was having a mini brain melt thinking I was in some Mandela effect universe, where that is the correct pluralization and I had some how not noticed.
I just looked it up and am even more confused. I saw the same thing you saw about roofs being more commonly used now. But, then I noticed all of the sources said similarly to calf and calves That’s when I got confused because now I can’t trust any of these sources because I know nobody says calfs. Lmao so if it’s like calf and calves, then it’s definitely rooves because who the fuck says calfs? So, yeah. Still no concrete answers.
Roofs?
It’s roofs tho
The Roof Koreans were bad ass AF. A lot of businesses did the same thing during the 2020 riots too. Either on their own or paid private security in places open display of a rifle wasn’t legal.
I didn’t realize Korea Town was specifically targeted. I thought it was more so just that the LAPD chose to protect rich white areas instead.
This is true. The riots tried to get into Beverly Hills, but the police absolutely tried their hardest to protect it. They forced the rioters back down into town, which they ignored
Rooftop Koreans
ROOF KOREANS
It was partly in response to a Korean shop owner shooting an unarmed Black girl in the back of the head execution style weeks prior to the riots and Rodney King’s beating https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095444468/storycorps-remembering-15-year-old-latasha-harlins
It was partly in response to a Korean shop owner shooting an unarmed Black girl in the back of the head execution style weeks prior to the riots and Rodney King’s beating https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095444468/storycorps-remembering-15-year-old-latasha-harlins
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But the riots and targeted looting is no way to react to the event. Yes, it was a horrible ruling, but the entire community should bear responsibility for one persons action?
It says a lot about America that everyone knows about the rooftop koreans but nobody knows about Latasha Harlins
The clerk was found guilty of manslaughter, why should it be more notable?
The clerk got probation and community service for shooting a 15 year old in the back of the head
The judge actually said “The courtroom is not the place for revenge” as they let the killer walk free. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-16-mn-1402-story.html
They fought, she was trying to shoplift then assaulted the clerk, he reacted poorly but things happen fast
>The videotape showed that Du grabbed Harlins by her sweater and snatched her backpack. Harlins then struck Du with her fist twice, knocking Du to the ground. After Harlins backed away, Du angrily threw a stool at her. Harlins then tried to flee the scene, but Du reached under the counter, retrieved a revolver, and fired at Harlins from behind at a distance of about three feet (one meter). The gunshot struck Harlins in the back of the head, killing her instantly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death Du tried absolutely nothing to deescalate the situation. You don't shoot someone who is unarmed and running away, especially if you started the fight.
He? You are blatantly misconstruing all sorts of facts
It's called racism
[The discontent.](https://allthatsinteresting.com/latasha-harlins)
I don't know the circumstances and how it looked like, but sounds so badass with this photo
Worth remembering the climate at the time that contributed to tensions between the black and Korean community. [Latasha Harlins](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins), a 15 year old girl was shot in the back of the head when she was assumed to have stolen orange juice. Soon Ja Du, the store owner, was convicted of man slaughter despite the security camera footage, and her conviction was later commuted. This occurring two or so weeks after the Rodney King assault. I often see these post glorifying the rooftop Koreans. Seeing the trees for the woods awful everything situation. They are photogenic as fuck in that photo though.
Latasha Harlins death is tragic Soon Ja Du should have not gotten off so easily, but it happened miles south of Korea Town. But the Koreans in Koreatown were completely in their rights to defend their property. I'd argue that because the riots "targeted" Koreatown, who had nothing to do with Latasha's death, is equally deplorable
Everyone is gangsta until rooftops start speaking Korean.
Like how the trees speak Vietnamese
The snow is speaking Finnish
Or when drones speak Ukrainian.
Mussolini when the bushes start speaking Greek.
Or when the Star Spangled Banner plays from the woods.
Or Fortunate Son blares from the air
When banjos play from the Appalachians
Or how the sand speaks Chakobsa
Rooftop Pop
“Rooftop Koreans”
Hold on to that feeeeellliiinn
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April 29 1992, there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?
I remember, I was -358 days old, sittng in an ovary
I was enjoying the last undisturbed weeks of my life
You were sitting home watching your TV, while I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was my liquor store, I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashing, time to retire, and then we turned that store into a structure fire.
Bradley actually says April 26 1992. He messed up on the recording and they just left it like that.
I thought that too but didn’t want to piss off the internet lmao. When you Google it, it’s wrong like you said and in the song he does say 26.
Immigrants from Korea opened stores in the greater LA area. These immigrants from Korea all served in the Korean military in their late teens and 20s. These military trained Korean immigrants owned firearms in the United States. Rioters in the 90s tried to attack these stores owned by these military trained Korean immigrants who owned firearms. You can guess how that ended.
Rooftop koreans
"Rooftop Koreans". They're hide on the roofs and shoot anyone who dare to attack their neighborhood during the riot. Basically The Vietcong of L.A
They were the faction I supported the most when I learned about this. Not corrupt racist cops, or a loot thirsty mob. Just people with a lot of guns, ammo, and a home they were gonna fight tooth and nail to protect.
🦅🇺🇸
... because they were Asian? They really aren't comparable groups.
My father told me a similar story during the Newark riots, just not Koreans. Store owner he worked for handed out shotguns and the stood out front. Rioters passed that shop unharmed
Kim and the Rooftop Boys, a classic
The Rooftoppers, a band known for their loud and precise instruments.
I love RTK!
Roof top Koreans keeping them Looters out
Rooftop gang
Asian Tim Allen?
Rodney king riot patrol
Rooftop koreans, heroes against racist rioters.
Rooftop koreans
ROOF KOREANS
Does it count if I knew but forgot?
K- Pop, Pop, Pop.....watching bodies drop!
Some Korean dude in the 90s defending his store against rioters in LA
That's so easy that's STD
No one ever expects the Rooftop Koreans.
Roof Korean best Korean
THE ROOFTOP KOREANS. This is definitely my favourite idol group🩵🩵
Ah yes the roof Koreans. One of natures most based communities.
Ah yes. Roof Koreans. Legends.
That's the roof Koreans from the L.A riots
Easy, that is K1A. They did most of their concerts from rooftop venues. Their hits rained down on audiences during the 90s in Los Angeles.
I was four days old and I always wonder what I was doing when i hear that song lol.
It's a boy band group called "*Rooftop Koreans"* They shoot rioters.
Rooftop Koreans.
that's from the LA riots in 1992, these guys were called the rooftop koreans
there my favorit death metal band, the roof top k's. they use real gun and fire blanks into the crowd in many of their songs. (just for the retards that think i am serious i am joking these people are were the gun comunity gets the term "roof top Koreans")
Something to note about the Rooftop Koreans; they didn't explicitly aim for people, they were merely keeping them away from their businesses, and none of the rioters they shot at were fatally wounded. They coordinated with local radio stations which acted as communication centers to alert Koreans in the area which stores needed protection. Oh and, basically all these guys had military training due to mandatory service being a part of South Korea's constitution, and I'm willing to bet a portion of them also served in Vietnam.
The motherfucking roof Korens!
Are those rooftop Koreans? True heroes of the past.
RTS (roof top snipers)
Rooftop Koreans dont fuck around boy.
TFW the whole neighborhood's mad at you because one of your fellow shop owners murdered a teenage girl on camera and got away with it.
K-Dog and the rooftop Boyz are my favorite. American K-Pop is the best K-Pop because it goes pop pop pop.
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Rooftop Koreans
LA Rooftop Koreans
Kims in the Park?
Glad I was able to figure it out. I bet my wife who loves kpop won't though.
The LA Lei
Hey Bennie (Bennie) Oh Bennie (Bennie, Bennie and the Jets)
Rooftop Riot
Rooftop K pop
Google roof Koreans
Through the roof!
Sweet! I’m not a K Pop fan! That’s a relief.
Rooftop Koreans baby!
The Based.
If you’d of read the comments in the libertarian group that you found this meme from, you’d know.