• Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      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

      • Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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        1 day ago

        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.