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I think it was more that if both the populace and the military have muskets it’d be hard to oppress the populace through force. Doesn’t really hold up though when the populace has small arms and the military can press a button and delete your city block.
That strategy played out so well in the middle east /s
There’s a pretty big difference between taking up arms to defend against an invading nation and taking up arms against your own country doing incrementalism. Before you could start doing any kind of meaningful organizing the fbi would be at your door
Yeah, guns don't do a thing while you're waiting for the front line of fascism to roll over you and your country.
They are convenient once you're well and truly in enemy territory, though.
Masked men show up on my porch, or molest my brown immigrant wife in public, I am instantly weapons free. No questions or hesitation. I am unloading.
That's not macho talk. I have thought long and hard on this, got a dog in this fight. I have the weapons and practice to, at the least, unleash hell. Catch me anywhere, there's a gun nearby. I'll end up dead. I know this. I have made my fucking decision. Bring. It.
The cannibal is still hungry, and now the circumstances push him more than ever to eat himself limb by limb.
US citizens have always had equal or better weapons than our infantry.
I don't know this guy, and I hate the title, but he's on point with his facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIsy3sZI2Y
In any case, there has been precious few incidents where the local or federal forces went balls out on us. Yeah, I can name a few, I get it, grew up in Tulsa, I get it, but they're not busting down our doors and putting us on trains because we are armed.
There's a Navy base in my backyard, they train helicopter pilots. Think those men and women will STFU, follow orders and drop on their neighbors? I'd like to think better of them.
If I'm wrong? I am armed as well as they are.