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[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Isn't this why the 2nd amendment was created, to prevent a tyrannical Govt.

Let's be honest, it's always been a smoke screen to justify personal gun ownership but when it comes to it no-one will have the balls to take on the Govt.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's more that, as it turns out, guns can't protect you against Fox News and Facebook feeds.

If Biden were president in this exact situation, there would be some guns out.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry to say this but if the population is so easily brainwashed then maybe they can't be trusted with gun ownership.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Why are they so brainwashed though? Because the government doesn't help with education? 🤷‍♂️ (Serious question.)

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hate the excuse "people are stupid."

That's both a truism and misleading. We've always had monkey brains. The issue is that humans are psycologically vulnerable to technologically enhanced attention-grabbing feeds; regulating that is on business and government, and it has little to do with the education system or gun laws.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Us liberals are too nice

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  • the declaration of independence
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Sounds great on paper. We need to put it in practice