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The fact that every american in a nation with more guns than people seems totally willing to let this fascist keep destroying the balance of power their whole country was founded on is honesty pathetic, and I lose respect for them every day it goes on. What the fuck was the right to bear arms in that dusty old paper even for, if not this?
Big talk for someone who also isn't about to throw their life away to take potshots at the local police station.
Government agitators: "God why are leftists such little babies! Oh you're not a little baby? You don't need a nappy? Well prove it! Commit a violent crime at a peaceful protest RIGHT NOW! Yeah, right into that camera. Great. That's perfect. Thank you."
I’m not american and my culture has no history of stockpiling weapons to fantasize about using them when the government takes our rights, so don’t try to paint me as a hypocrite for calling this out as an outside observer.
Also, please show me where I even implied people should shoot at local cops or turn protests violent? If there was any advocation of violence in my comment (for legal purposes this is an if) it had one clear target, and wasn’t specifically addressed to leftists. I don’t blame you for wanting reasons to write off what I said, cuz I can’t imagine being american right now - not a figure of speech, I literally cannot and I feel for you dudes - but please don’t resort to strawman and false equivalency fallacies to do it.
If you think gun culture was ever about "fighting to uphold your rights" you're as dumb as the average American that buys a gun and says that same thing.
It's about profiting off of peoples fear. Fear that grows with every new school shooting or "dangerous immigrant" story. It's always been about fear of the "other". All the way from freed slaves to Venezuelan immigrants.
Are you really shocked the average American gun owner isn't storming the capital to "save democracy" from the guy that most of them voted for?
The few of us gun owners in the US that are actually leftist are organizing locally to resist ICE in our neighborhoods. With the full knowledge right now that use of a weapon in self defense is just going to get you killed. (Which may be your best option).
We're focusing on having quick communication to resist ICE. Early warning of their presence so their target can avoid that altercation altogether.
So, I'm sorry. But you're just disconnected if you think the average American ever gave a shit about "rights". They give a shit about white supremacy and there is absolutely no threat to that right now that would make them take up arms.
It was always for state militias, before we had a national army. That dusty paper literally says that.
Allowing the President to activate the National Guard was a big mistake. They were our last option against militaristic takeover.
Exactly: non-fascist-controlled states should've been mobilizing their militias against the fascist thugs by now.
The State militias (State Guards/State Defense Forces) have mostly been abolished and have been almost completely replaced by National Guard and the rest of DOD. The remaining State Guards/State Defense forces have been so thoroughly neutered and atrophied as to be essentially adult versions of boy scouts, but with less activities.
The States should restart their State Defense Forces and take them seriously as a real and legitimate military forces, not unarmed disaster response organizations.
People will say they aren't but the national gaurd listens more to the federal government than the state when it all comes down to it.
I wish more people understood how far away Washington DC is from the bulk of the US.
It’s an 18 hour drive, even if I could afford it, and I only live half way to the other coast.
What the fuck was the right to bear arms in that dusty old paper even for,
It's for murdering people who aren't "white". Always has been.
For school shootings, of course. Just like the founders wanted.
