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It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.

The national guard showed up this morning after being federalized against a governor's wishes for the first time since school desegregation

Yeah, but a bunch of today's events were in the county, not the city, and the county sheriff are the ones that are most willing to hurt people.

Edit: Gov Newsom is deploying the CHP. Hopefully they have orders to keep the other cops from going on a murder rampage

The sheriff is his own elected official, and you can't run for the position unless you're a cop.

Unfortunately local cops are in favor of killing citizens.

ICE has been raiding elementary schools in the past few days.

I dont expect 2nd graders to read the article.

Good luck once locked up without the right to an attorney

Thanks for letting us know what is going on.

Most kids don't have the set of photos you describe in government databases.

Most news coverage doesn't make the connection. I don't think people realize why that's happening, or even that their congressmembers have voted to kill jobs.

Welcome to America

if they care to

ICE doesn't care if your skin is too dark, or your name sounds vaguely Arabic or Spanish.

The problem is that you're probably not lying in wait with a mythical concealed-carry shotgun. Realistic sequences that have happened in the recent past:

• A couple guys wearing utility company uniforms ask to step inside to diagnose a problem. They then jump you and arrest you.
• Your camera system stops working due to jamming. Then 15 armed men break through your door and surprise you while you're asleep in bed.
• Several people in the crowd at your kid's graduation ceremony suddenly surround you and zip-tie your wrists before you realize what's going on.

You're going to be dealing with a situation where you don't see in advance what's happening, and where you're confronted with a whole batch of people who are heavily armed and wearing body armor. That's a situation where one individual acting alone is very unlikely to succeed in killing an assailant with a gun.

Odds of shooting somebody in face when you are ambushed by a larger group of armed men are low.

They're wearing body armor. Dude with a concealed gun likely ends up dead, and ICE gets no charges because they were afraid.

Probably be stuck in customs for life.

Pretty much. The fact is that ICE does stuff like beat up and arrest a state-level union president because they don't like the color of his skin.