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'Colluding in Broad Daylight': Trump Praises Louisiana Governor for Suspending Elections
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When are Americans actually going to use their 2A rights for something other than performative bullshit?
Seriously, this is the kind of shit the law was created to stop.
lol it's easy to sit from outside and go "do something" when in reality you would never lift a finger in violence against your government because unless you have nothing left to lose, it's not a winning bet
Have you seen how the French reacted to the raising of retirement age? They literally threw a bathtub through their executives home window. Americans should be dragging politicians through the streets by their entrails with all the shit that's been happening but they willingly just keep letting it happen with no actual recourse.
I agree, they should be taking more direct action to confront their leaders. America is nothing compared to France in terms of protests. They have grills that are built to slide onto the metro tram rails so they can feed the protestors as they move down the street, since they do it so much.
I'm just saying the OP brought up 2A, and that's a pretty final solution that there's no coming back from if you go that route. Protest is one thing, assassination with firearms is a completely different thing.
"Violence isn't the answer, until it's the only answer left"
Luckily I think America still has many disruptive, non-assassination-based responses left. We're quickly careening towards that point, but I think we're still decently far away from all out violence like that. To be honest I don't think it'll ever get to that point in the MAGA time period. I really really hope I'm right.
I'm not directing people to go do something.
I'm openly wondering why, in a country with a law that was designed to literally protect the people from tyranny (which I think cancelling elections counts) nobody is doing anything.
Because the people who worship guns the most support the tyrants.
The hierarchy of needs is being met sufficiently that going against the system providing them is scary, especially when you’re likely to die doing it.
Same reason the bear runs when the cat chases it. Not worth the fight.
I’m not saying this is how I believe, just this is what I believe the general reason is.
Exactly, everyone is still too comfortable to take such drastic action. That's fortunate because it means society hasn't broken down to the point of people starving and what not (which I don't think it'll ever get to that point in the near term). But it's unfortunate that everyone is still too comfortable to take action.
Actually, millions of people are taking action in protests, petitions, local referendums, etc. but not many people want to take the most drastic action as they have too much to lose (e.g. their life). I want the regime to fall and face real justice without violence, but the regime is pushing everyone to get violence so they can crack down even harder against any dissent. We're speedrunning to Putin's playbook.
The whole 2A bullshit was always meant to be used against minorities.
Shhhh....we dont say that out loud
It's hard. I'm a minority living quite far away with multiple guns, and to get to DC with them and close enough to leverage them would be basically impossible.
I have them for any impending civil war against neighbors or otherwise, because I feel like that's coming.
We need to be making coalitions with our neighbors and otherwise. We stand no chance if we cannot stand together.
I agree.
But all my neighbors voted for and strongly support Trump.
Same, my family is surrounded by Red and Qanonists.
I disagree that this was the original purpose, but we heard the argument often enough from defenders of the 2A... and don't hear anything now.
Never, it was always some fallacy to sell the "land of the free, home of the brave" marketing campaign... Americans are entirely meek
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The intent is pretty clear. It's been muddled by idiots through history, but it's obviously to have militias armed, trained, and ready for when an enemy attacks. At the time, most nations relied on militias for their military. Professional standing armies were reserved for the wealthiest nations, and even they usually supplemented them with militias. The USA was a new nation of farmers. It did not have the budget to have a professional military. They wrote the 2nd amendment clearly for this purpose.
This isn't to say people shouldn't do what the charlatans have said it's for. Obviously they should if/when it's needed (not making a claim about now, that's for the reader to decide).
I also support gun rights, though I think they should be more regulated and require training and safe storage. The 9th amendment protects this.
Because guns don't bring political power on their own.