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Compliance (slrpnk.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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Bearded cartoon man in front of "don't tread on me" flag: Real Americans Don't let the government push them around!. Same man in front of photo of ICE agent murdering a woman: She should have complied.
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The point of an armed populace in term of protecting freedoms is for the people to have enough combined firepower to make tyranny impractical. It's been proven time and again that an armed citizen insurgency can defeat the US military.

If 150,000 armed Democrats in Minneapolis started taking pot shots at ICE any time they saw them, there would be nothing the Trump admin could do short of nuking the city.

But if I had been there on Tuesday with my gun and started shooting at ICE by myself, all I'd have accomplished is getting myself killed and giving Trump more ammunition.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    You don't have to take the entire military. You just have to have a critical mass of gun ownership that makes them too afraid to deploy. I know we have a whole propoganda ethos around this but our country doesn't actually mobilize against anyone with a proportional likelihood of shooting back.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah - and the non-GOP side of the political spectrum doesn't have that critical mass because the "left" side of the country disarmed itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah. Yeah they did. I spent the last decade trying to convince leftists that we need to back up civil rights with the risk of mortal violence but I'm pretty sure I convinced no one. Maybe there's a certain factor of wanting to be victimized by power, I don't know.

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