• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      Let’s pretend any of that actually matters and the US government doesn’t have a history of losing to locals, and ask the following: what happens if you willingly disarm yourself? Criminals will still have guns, your police will still shoot “less-lethal” rounds into the heads of protesters, and you will still be oppressed.

      What do you get out of this? A fraction of the illusion of safety? And all it cost you was the last defense against oppression anyone has.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        I really don’t care to get into overarching discussion of the 2nd amendment, it’s been done to death. It’s also not what this conversation was about.

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      16 hours ago

      Then just move. I know the current administration is happy you are spreading propaganda that states to roll over since there’s nothing to do. You are the maga hero.

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        Look, I’m not saying to just roll over, but wtf are we supposed to do. The second amendment is there, I don’t see anyone utilizing it, and I don’t think they ever will.

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          If only the current administration could be paralleled with start of nazi germany with evocative imagery and slogans and made into memes and posted everywhere in order to get past the internet censoring. That could get more people thinking that a government they do not control is in nobody’s interests or something.

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          The 2A is there for you to do things, but it’s not only simply about rising up. It’s about instrumentalization. When every citizen can be armed “just in case”, all you need is for that to statistically compound into a Luigi or two getting three lucky marked shots on the tyrant du jour.

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      When CW II kicks off some people will be caught, some people will be thrown in prison, and some people will be killed.

      Remember it’s “home of the brave”, not “home of the cowards”.