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.
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A photo taken of border patrol federal agents during the summer 2025 Los Angeles protests
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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.
Sorry to say this but if the population is so easily brainwashed then maybe they can't be trusted with gun ownership.
Why are they so brainwashed though? Because the government doesn't help with education? 🤷♂️ (Serious question.)
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.
Us liberals are too nice
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
Sounds great on paper. We need to put it in practice
Which border are they patrolling in LA?
Border patrol has enormous zones designated as border areas. Nearly two thirds of Americans live in that zone.
Doesnt it also count airports?
Yes, international airports. Tulsa, OK has a 100-mile wide zone around it.
If you added 100 mile circles around every international airport in the US, I'd wager that most of the USA's landmass (minus Alaska) and more than 90% of the population would fall inside this fascist interpretation of "border".
You got me looking! I don't trust most of the sources I found as Tulsa International Airport isn't usually listed. Maybe that's due to a weird industry thing.
I wonder why gestapo would have such a broad justification hmmm
The borders of fascism, I guess.
Land of the free.
traitors every single one of them
Everyone of them has a raging erection at the thought of shooting someone.
Fucking pig nazis
ammosexuals, they fantasize shooting people.
That appears to be an actual paramilitary force.
It's not just me, right? Other people can see it too?
America's enemies have nothing to worry about. Job's good as done at this point.
Are you sure that America aren't America's enemies?
Look at the picture and you know they are not there to bring peace.
Terrorists.
Are those paintball guns?
Yes, they are repurposed to fire pepperballs.
Ouch wtf are pepperballs?
A paintball filled with capsaicin or something similar. Technically many of the guns are sold purpose made as pepper ball launchers, but they are literally rebranded .68 cal paintball guns and compatible with commercial paintball gun parts.
I see two in the photo. Along with what I presume is a 37mm break open launcher.
any name tags or badges to identify them?
The fuck they doing that far North? The border is down near San Diego, fellas.
Well according to bullshit, the US Border Patrol's jurisdiction is within 100 miles of any international boundary, the sea, or international airport. So that covers approximately 75% of the continental united states.
Again, you've misspelled pigs.
Military-boos being sweating. I can almost sniff that. Let them get overheated.
Technically, not "summer".