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Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?

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    https://www.reuters.com/article/world/thousands-of-armed-us-gun-rights-activists-join-peaceful-virginia-rally-idUSKBN1ZJ1VN/

    Literally one the most peaceful protests ever. The police stayed the fuck away and it had the governor shitting his pants.

    Tons of cops are willing to kill for a paycheck, not a lot are willing to die for one.

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    That is fucking terrifying and so is anybody who doesn't think so.

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    • S [email protected]

      I never understood this dumb argument from anti-2a people. We, the strongest military to have ever existed in the history of the world...lost Vietnam, lost iraq, lost Afghanistan, and tied in Korea.

      Planes can't patrol street corners. You need boots and they need to be willing to kill their countrymen and be doing it for a paycheck.

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      We “lost” those wars because of morale. Like especially in Vietnam we were destroying them in terms of kill death ratios and the Vietcong had been mostly eliminated by 1969. Also Vietnam wasn’t just a bunch of farmers with hunting rifles the NVA was being funded and trained by the USSR and China. By the end of the war Vietnam lost around 20x the people and their population had been poisoned with agent orange.

      We also didn’t use our nukes, if the military through enough brainwashing and propaganda could be convinced that these protesters are an insider threat we could easily be looking at the deaths of 10-100s of thousands

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      • S [email protected]

        This is the dumbest statement ever. You have to have a gun to use it. So yes, carrying one increases that chance. Just like my chances of microwaving popcorn increases when I have fucking popcorn in the pantry.

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        It's really not that dumb and your analogy is bad.

        If it was normal to buy popcorn and never eat it then it would make sense. Obviously most people who buy guns never kill anyone with them and you can carry it and not use it

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        • archmageazor@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

          I can guarantee you that none of these Nazis would want to give up their beliefs.

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          How the fuck are you gonna guarantee that?

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            How the fuck are you gonna guarantee that?

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            They're Americans in ICE. That tells you all you need to know about their characters.

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              Othering seems like a kinda Nazi thing to do...

              It's what they deserve. Tolerance is a social contract, not a "paradox." You reject it, you're not protected by it anymore.

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              No-one is asking you to tolerate Nazism. You can resist it without pretending that Nazis are inhuman.

              It's dangerous in two ways:

              1. Nazis are inhuman, and my friend Jim is human so he can't be a Nazi.
              2. Nazis are inhuman, you have something in common with Nazis, so you're not human.
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                This is how you get killed for carrying a candy bar (esp if you're a brown person)

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                Or a hairbrush

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                • archmageazor@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                  They're Americans in ICE. That tells you all you need to know about their characters.

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                  This new brand of prejudice belongs in the bin. Fuck off.

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                  • S [email protected]

                    Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                    Regards
                    An Australian
                    Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                    There's a reason they're trying their damndest to provoke people into a shooting match but:

                    Yes.

                    However, the idea was created in mind so that everyone could be armed in case this very thing happened to occur BUT did not take into consideration advancement in technology, and the ability of the federal government to restrict arms.

                    Based on the photos I've seen, the feds are wearing plate carriers - level IV body armor, designed to stop a .30-06 round. If it's level 3, it's gonna stop .223 (Ar-15).

                    Very few citizens have automatic weapons. You can't own an RPG without the the right documents. Explosive manufacturing is dangerous, and difficult.

                    You can't match federal firepower with the second amendment.

                    The feds are currently using coward tactics. They are kidnapping people who can't afford decent housing, let alone smartphones. They go in fast, kidnap everyone, and get out. Even with armed people, they wouldn't be able to respond fast enough.

                    That's why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online..

                    There are ways to fight back. But they require patience, communication, planning, subterfuge, and more importantly OPSEC. Otherwise the regime just slaughters everyone like they want to.

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                    • N [email protected]

                      Othering seems like a kinda Nazi thing to do...

                      If you treat them as fundamentally different, you're not gonna spot it when the same attitudes start appearing within your in-group. Monsters are still human, we all gotta work to keep that in check.

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                      I see a difference between othering based on actions and decisions, displaying solid viewpoints on human empathy or lack thereof, rather than othering based on race, country of origin, religion, sexuality, or other circumstances of identity beyond an individual’s control.

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                      • S [email protected]

                        Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                        Regards
                        An Australian
                        Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                        This would be grounds to incite a civil war.

                        Also, the second amendment gives us the right to assassinate our leaders. Problem is, nobody is trying, except the fool who missed Trump.

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                          There's a reason they're trying their damndest to provoke people into a shooting match but:

                          Yes.

                          However, the idea was created in mind so that everyone could be armed in case this very thing happened to occur BUT did not take into consideration advancement in technology, and the ability of the federal government to restrict arms.

                          Based on the photos I've seen, the feds are wearing plate carriers - level IV body armor, designed to stop a .30-06 round. If it's level 3, it's gonna stop .223 (Ar-15).

                          Very few citizens have automatic weapons. You can't own an RPG without the the right documents. Explosive manufacturing is dangerous, and difficult.

                          You can't match federal firepower with the second amendment.

                          The feds are currently using coward tactics. They are kidnapping people who can't afford decent housing, let alone smartphones. They go in fast, kidnap everyone, and get out. Even with armed people, they wouldn't be able to respond fast enough.

                          That's why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online..

                          There are ways to fight back. But they require patience, communication, planning, subterfuge, and more importantly OPSEC. Otherwise the regime just slaughters everyone like they want to.

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                          TLDR: "This is why we can't stop nazis, because I'm a chicken and I'm repeating nonsense"

                          We outnumber them thousands to one. How is their armor going to protect them when their tires are slashed, and they have to walk 30mi through downtown? It's not.

                          "But they can kill a hundred people with their awful nazi guns!"

                          Fuck you, you chickenshit nazi propaganda spewing coward. Nothing can save nazis against their sociopathically bad planning.

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                            No it doesn't. The founders literally talk about it in their federalist letters. They just finished fighting a war with mainly private arms. They absolutely wanted everyone to be armed and have the right to choose so.

                            It's odd that the anti-2a crowd seems to understand the wording of all other amendments, but the 2nd they just seem to think the founders fucked the wording up.

                            No where does it say, the right of the militia to keep and bear arms and magically ignores the people part

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                            It means that having a state-level military is important to the security of states, so the federal government will not ban the ownership of private firearms. States could and did ban private ownership of firearms early on. Some states did not.

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                              There's a reason they're trying their damndest to provoke people into a shooting match but:

                              Yes.

                              However, the idea was created in mind so that everyone could be armed in case this very thing happened to occur BUT did not take into consideration advancement in technology, and the ability of the federal government to restrict arms.

                              Based on the photos I've seen, the feds are wearing plate carriers - level IV body armor, designed to stop a .30-06 round. If it's level 3, it's gonna stop .223 (Ar-15).

                              Very few citizens have automatic weapons. You can't own an RPG without the the right documents. Explosive manufacturing is dangerous, and difficult.

                              You can't match federal firepower with the second amendment.

                              The feds are currently using coward tactics. They are kidnapping people who can't afford decent housing, let alone smartphones. They go in fast, kidnap everyone, and get out. Even with armed people, they wouldn't be able to respond fast enough.

                              That's why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online..

                              There are ways to fight back. But they require patience, communication, planning, subterfuge, and more importantly OPSEC. Otherwise the regime just slaughters everyone like they want to.

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                              That's why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online..

                              There are ways to fight back. But they require patience, communication, planning, subterfuge, and more importantly OPSEC. Otherwise the regime just slaughters everyone like they want to.

                              Louder for the motherfuckers in the back!

                              There are so many fucking people online upset about this shit that amount to not much more than hot air. Chasing the perfect to the detriment of the good. Purity tests. Arguing for blatantly impossible courses of action, or at least ones that will nevet get enough buy in from the greater population to work. Sitting on their asses getting angry while worshipping some half-cocked idea of open revolution, full overthow of the government, and dissolution of the capitalist economic framework... without ever evaluating how the fuck the world could even get to that state except "magic unspecific mass violent revolution", "complete apocalypse scenario then rebuild", or "if we all wish upon a star really hard, all the bad people will have simultaneous fatal anuerysms". Not to mention how the fuck could that state ever be maintained afterwards.

                              If it's not outright impossible, it will require an astronomical amount of prep and planning. None of this is shit that just "happens" through sheer desire or will without slow supportive action to build what is neccessary.

                              People getting their emotional catharsis ranting, venting, and shit stirring without taking any true action. Stirring other people up into the same state.

                              Get offline, get involved locally, become an expert on the spaces and people around you. Form local connections. Accept that you aren't an action hero, and if the US military is turned on you, as a civilian you cannot win through force. Build relevant skills for a crisis. Build relevant skills for ongoing resistance. Build skills for organizing locally and securely.

                              Most importantly: Shut the absolute fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. As far as it's within your power, don't make yourself a target and blend in.


                              I'm already not a good example, as my OPSEC on this account is abysmal. I take solace in that none of my plans or actions involve abject resistance, and are all local good type shit.

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                              • S [email protected]

                                No it doesn't. The founders literally talk about it in their federalist letters. They just finished fighting a war with mainly private arms. They absolutely wanted everyone to be armed and have the right to choose so.

                                It's odd that the anti-2a crowd seems to understand the wording of all other amendments, but the 2nd they just seem to think the founders fucked the wording up.

                                No where does it say, the right of the militia to keep and bear arms and magically ignores the people part

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                                It's kind of neat how wrong you got it.

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                                • S [email protected]

                                  Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                                  Regards
                                  An Australian
                                  Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                                  Because law enforcement has proven that they shoot first and ask questions later if they see a threatening weapon.

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                                    We “lost” those wars because of morale. Like especially in Vietnam we were destroying them in terms of kill death ratios and the Vietcong had been mostly eliminated by 1969. Also Vietnam wasn’t just a bunch of farmers with hunting rifles the NVA was being funded and trained by the USSR and China. By the end of the war Vietnam lost around 20x the people and their population had been poisoned with agent orange.

                                    We also didn’t use our nukes, if the military through enough brainwashing and propaganda could be convinced that these protesters are an insider threat we could easily be looking at the deaths of 10-100s of thousands

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                                    Arguably the morale was because we were fighting enemies we didn't know how to fight, nor did we have a way to respond to tactics they used.

                                    We went into all those wars with overwhelming firepower, which caused the opposition to resort to pure guerrilla tactics. In Vietnam, they faced Chinese and USSR pilots in the air - which did not go as planned. We stomped the shit out of the Iraq army, but Saddam was holding the 3 opposing factions in check. When they splintered and became guerrillas they fought with suicide bombers. Same in Afghanistan. They waged a psychological war where the enemy was everywhere and nowhere.

                                    I have specific story about the Korean war too. At the time in Korea, the US war machine couldn't break through the Chinese supplied artillery and forces. They actually had forward air bases (extremely well guarded) have several occurrences where they got Intel they were targets of a North Korean force, and the air force servicemen, most of who were various technicians, mechanics, and logistics get fully prepared to meet infantry head on. (My grandpa explained that they weren't even that close to North Korean territory, and when they scrambled all available jets at their base, he recalls him and even his superiors being shook.). They got helmets, a choice of an M1911A1 or an M1, and a few clips of ammo. Most of them took the handgun since it was the only one they remembered how to operate. He doesn't remember how long they were in that defensive position, but apparently the North Koreans changed targets a few miles out and went elsewhere. He said back then, at 6'4" him and all the other tall guys were always at the forward bases, probably to make the south Koreans feel safer and scare the North Koreans abit.

                                    Toward Vietnam, at the end of his contract, they approached him and a group of 8 others for air commando training. He said fuck no, 5 said sure. 1 came back, and the last time my granpa talked with him they still hadn't recovered their bodies (who knows when that was).

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                                      Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                                      Regards
                                      An Australian
                                      Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                                      Have to wait until a majority wants a revolution because it's not really ethical to do this until a strong majority wants to do it. Right now it would basically just be an insurrection.

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                                        TLDR: "This is why we can't stop nazis, because I'm a chicken and I'm repeating nonsense"

                                        We outnumber them thousands to one. How is their armor going to protect them when their tires are slashed, and they have to walk 30mi through downtown? It's not.

                                        "But they can kill a hundred people with their awful nazi guns!"

                                        Fuck you, you chickenshit nazi propaganda spewing coward. Nothing can save nazis against their sociopathically bad planning.

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                                        Alright, I encourage you to lead by example and tell me how it goes.

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                                        • S [email protected]

                                          Is this not the reason the second amendment exists?
                                          Regards
                                          An Australian
                                          Edit: I'm not advocating for violence. More so "a well regulated militia" which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

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                                          Open carry is illegal in my state. I could be immediately busted for that and accomplish nothing.

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