Since people for guns in the USA keep saying it’s to fight facism and corruption, and facism and corruption is now running wild out of control with no “good guys with guns”, I think it won’t matter if we ban all guns across the board permanently, including for cops.

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    I’ve often said that I will gladly participate in destroying every single gun in existence.

    But it has to be all of them. No military exception, no cop exception.

    However, this whole “where are the guns vs tyranny people now” thing is empty headed dreck. Because those of us on the left are right here, and those that are on the right are in support of the fascism.

    We’re outnumbered, and nobody actually wants a civil war. Well, that’s not true. Only idiots want a civil war.

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      I mean, my gun is to defend my house. I’m not going to take the gun and run around shooting the abstractum of fascism. There would need to be some kind of strategy, organization, plan, etc for you to expect an armed uprising. Nobody wants to be a martyr, they just want to protect what they have and who they love.

      There’s a long road littered with the corpses of less bloody solutions that needs to be walked before the second amendment is leveraged, and at that point we would likely need an entire Constitutional Convention of States and rewrite of the constitution to fix our systemic issues.

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        Exactly. It really seems people crowing about it don’t stop to think that a bunch of random assholes packing heat isn’t a revolution. It isn’t even an uprising. It’s just a waste of manpower and ammo.

        You don’t overthrow a government without some coordination and planning.

        You need armaments to make it happen, but the guns don’t do the job by themselves

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      Are you aware that Luigi Mangione constructed a makeshift firearm from things he bought at a hardware store?