• person420@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 days ago

    This is such a crazy assertion. I know plenty of democrats who own guns. They just generally don’t make it their personality.

    It also ignores the massive arms difference between a government of today and its citizens vs when the constitution was written.

    Lots of change has happened in the US as the result of protests that go violent, but none have ever succeeded using guns.

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      4 days ago

      The point of the second amendment isn’t to go toe-to-toe with the military and never has been. It’s to make every citizen a potential threat to those in power, and to allow for guerilla warfare.

      A pistol can’t beat a tank, but it can kill a politician or general if it’s weilded by the right random person at the right time and location.