such a funny time for this discourse again ☕

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Rising up against the government is a LARPy roleplay fantasy by people who don’t have community or culture.

    However, making your insane, fascist government think twice before knocking down random doors in random neighborhoods lest they face a hail of gunfire, that is almost a necessity right now.

    This country has too much wealth and resources that a lot of people would love to control, Trump is just the first to succeed at getting into the vault, but there have been many, many others who would have taken the US by force from within given the means.

    Yes, better social policies and better international relations would have done a better job mitigating that, but we didn’t get that, so here we are. Huddled behind our weapons and hoping they scare the monsters enough that they leave us alone.

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      2 months ago

      First of all the, majority of gun owners fully support the fascist regime. So you will be fighting them and the military.

      Second of all, you would be fighting against the government. Spy drones, tanks, missiles, etc. You will be killed and you won’t have a fighting chance. There is no escape.

      Guns have already destroyed our society from within. Tens of millions of people live in fear of gun violence. Millions of partners can’t leave their relationships because they fear death. Tens of thousands of people are raped at gun point every year.

      The amount of human suffering is staggering.