Reporters gathered at the scene noted that by “putting [his] body on the line,” this particular lawmaker apparently just meant standing at the back of a quiet group and playing online chess on his phone.
Reporters gathered at the scene noted that by “putting [his] body on the line,” this particular lawmaker apparently just meant standing at the back of a quiet group and playing online chess on his phone.
These are the same people voting to take our weapons away. How’s that working out? I’m liberal and still have mine, y’all do you when the trains start running.
Bull shit. Biden and Harris were both pro guns, and Trump was the one who wanted to take guns away without due process. Pence had to dial him back.
You think your pistol will help you against the police “when the train start runnung”? What do you intend to do with it, shoot a tank in the eye?
Your gun will get you killed, and that’s about it.
everytime i see this argument it just makes me think of some fascist trying to get the populace to give up their guns so the take over is much easier
That’s because your version of civil resistance comes from exaggerated American myth of cowboys mixed with the imagery of civil wars in impoverished countries.
If your fear was about a civil war and roaming bands of rednecks on trucks with a bunch of rifles, then yeah, imagine defending your homestead Rambo style all you want, we all seen mad max. But if you’re worried about fascist government, then the only difference your gun makes is that you will be Branched Davidianed instead of dark van disappeared, and I am pretty sure that’s not the fantasy here.
The only way to beat fascism from the inside is the community, mutual aid, resistance, not fantasising about shootouts with the gestapo.
It’s about time to start using those weapons to take down the bad people, and dumbfucks are still waiting for some dude in 18th century old clothes to stand in their front door with an old revolver asking to get shot.
These people have weird wet dreams.
Modern warfare kills you and your whole block with a drone in your sleep.
If there’s a pistol behind every blade of grass it becomes a problem.
If every meeting needs an armed security sweep it becomes a problem.
If every raid has to be tactically sound it becomes a problem.
If every ICE agent gets PTSD it becomes a problem.
Collective action.
America has an unregistered firearm for each American. If the army culls the general population. Now there’s no supply chain. No food. No clothes. No ammo. What good is a tank that has run out of gas due to shooting the man who delivered it?
Seven steps before this scenario might occure, a dark van with three armored guys comes to your house to question you, and if you so much as brandish your gun, they will legally shoot you dead. And before you fantasise more about glorious revolutions and tachankas on the streets of Washington, I need to remind you that you didn’t managed to get enough momentum to vote twice in a row, and escaping to live in the forest and sabotage delivery chains requires way more commitment than marking a paper once every two years.
And that’s probably a good thing. Hell doesn’t exist, but the closest thing to an eternity in hell is a day in a city torn by a civil war.