Can you imagine how bloodthirsty the pigs would be if we didn’t have all these guns keeping them pacified?
The people who think having guns keep the government in check are the exact same people jacking off to the thin blue line.
I’m a liberal gun nut who loathes the police and believes the government is held in check by our guns.
If you think the American government is fascist now, how do you think they would act if they could storm any home and be certain to only find defenseless people? Think police are beating our asses, with impunity, in the streets as is? Imagine what they would do if they had zero fear of the populace.
Have you considered that that “fear of the populace” is an aggravating factor in police use of deadly force?
“They’ve got a gun” is license to kill Americans.
If the guns can protect people from the State, why don’t they?
The police aren’t afraid of the populace, and any fear they may have or that may be inspired by increased gun ownership isn’t going to manifest itself in de-escalation and them using a lighter hand, they’re cops they know in the game of escalation they have the full force of the state behind them and will win.
Unless you have some other organization that is powerful and organized enough to contend with the state cops aren’t going to back down, and at that point we’re talking about a well regulated militia and not individual ownership.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not anti gun either. I have owned a few in my life, only reason I don’t right now is because I had to sell them due to financial reasons.
But, yes. The people who are crazy gun types are also the people who jack off to the thought of the police having military hardware because they think the police are only going to use them on black people. Simple as that.
This is exactly why the Black Panthers were formed. And they worked. So well that the government took them down.
It’s almost like the guns didn’t help.
Some supporting arguments
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00027162231156292
I am also a leftist gun nut, and Brianna Taylor proved they can already storm your home, and since they assume every citizen is armed they storm accordingly with common entry tactics. Charge the door, throw ordnance (flash bangs in her case), scream conflicting commands and then shoot anything that moves.
I’m still a big proponent of an armed citizenry, the first gun control laws came about in California from a very frightened Reagan after the Black Panthers exercised their 2nd amendment rights.
Guns however will never de-escalate a situation trust me. They can end a situation due to an over abundance of force.
The American government spends trillions on the military, if you think your guns are going to stop fascists you’re probably mistaken.
Um… Let’s take a quick look at the American military’s track record real quick… They tend to lose when fighting a decentralized, insurgent force (VC, Taliban) which is exactly what the citizenry of the US would turn into if the government turned on the population. Not to mention, a ton of military personnel would hold the same values of said insurgency, meaning that, at best, some would think twice before attacking, and at worst they’ll defect, bringing millions worth of fancy kit to the other side. I don’t have a dog in this race (not American) but I think it’s ridiculous to underestimate the capabilities of an angry populace.
Those are pretty good points actually, thanks for taking the time.
It’s 2024. They can cut off your power and internet, freeze your bank accounts, and send in drones.
That’s without them bringing in ‘civilian contractors.’
Pretty much every time I get into this with a proponent of armed resistance they fall back on the line 'American soldiers won’t kill American citizens."
As another lefty gun nut, the thing I think folks forget about resisting the gov with arms, is there are worse fates than dying in a gun fight.
Yeah well it did actually work out pretty well for the BLM protestors who armed themselves. The police were scared and left them alone, see this article: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN24604N/
Why does this prove it worked? Because they weren’t beaten or assaulted? Most protests , even BLM ones, don’t involve police brutality.
In some European countries the police isn’t even armed since noone has guns
And there have been a tonne of revolutions in Europe over the past fifty years.
It’s almost as if guns and revolutions are unrelated.
Could you imagine if America had a revolution? I might move back.
