• folaht@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    To answer Pete Buttigeg:

    That’s the point! We’re not Benjamin Netanyahu who enjoys targeting everyone but soldiers and police officers.

    You know those Russian soldiers dropped their weapons during the October revolution.
    If American soldoers are wise, they’d do the same.

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    4 hours ago

    He’s right, you know. If you own an AR you shouldn’t slack on practice. Go to the gun range regularly. Train how to clean and maintain it. You may one day be facing people who are well trained.

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    Democrats will happily disarm everyone and hand the keys to the nation to the Republicans. The recent exhaltation of David Hogg in the party is proof. Not even January 6th 2021 will change their minds, they will never stop their anti gun crusade.

    The justice system is not meant to protect us as we can all plainly see. We are on our own.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah if dems dropped gun I expect more wins but you know dnc. They dont want guns cause they already keep trying to shoot its own limbs off as it is.

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      Democrats will happily disarm everyone and hand the keys to the nation to the Republicans.

      Even today when the Republicans are years-deep into proving that all the worst things we’ve ever suspected about them and their motives are true (and more) folks are still more worried D wants to come take their guns away.

      R is literally dismantling our government and trampling the rights of an ever-growing segment of our population, on a speed run to authoritarianism, but folks are still yelling about that tired bogeyman instead of using the 2A as they have always claimed they can’t wait to do.

      You will scream about how Dems want your guns all the way up until the brownshirts show up to take them. The fuck is wrong with some of you?

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    Why are we punching a strawman made out of a 7 year old tweet? Get something more current of his to spit on.

    Not even getting into how this can more squarely be aimed at conservatives who profess to love the cops and love the troops, but love the 2nd just as much. The article specifically about defending yourself from troops and cops.

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      It does represent the dichotomy of Democrats complaining about 2a when they are in control but people realizing its importance when the repression they commit abroad comes home.

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        I think it represents a timely reminder that we now know those who scream the loudest about the 2A, and how we can’t do a damn thing about gun violence because it would erode their freedoms, have no interest in using it the way they’ve always proclaimed they must, as long as the right people are being hurt.

        And I’m not actually anti-2A so much as I am anti-a-particular-sort-of-gun-enthusiast.

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    Is that even happening? Considered US police and various letter agencies are basically at the level of open warfare against the population i would imagine population of such a liberty loving country would fight back…

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      Yeah, Americans love to fantasise about their beloved 2nd amendment (regardless of political persuasion), but they have never ever used it for what they (falsely) claim it was intended for.

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    Oh right! Guess I should just let cops and military do whatever they want because they have the special American pass.

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    11 hours ago

    Oh yeah the very nice police force that has absolutely not been systematically trained to shoot first and ask questions later when things go south?

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    Yeah no shit buddy. It’s come to that point. I like you Pete, but don’t bury your head in the sand on this one. American soldiers defend fascism.

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    Of course this is what it means. The people who wrote down this existing right had done the same to their equivalents. It’s not a fantasy.