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Well I live the US right now, and we have masked men carrying guns, that randomly kidnap people off the streets. Being strapped is a must here at the moment.
That is a valid fear but pulling out a gun and shooting those masked men will get you killed.
It's either be killed instantly in the spot or die in a foreign concentration camp
If you get run over by a car while crossing the street it doesn't battery if you had the right of way, you're still dead.
Dead is dead.
Yeah but taking some of them with me. Motherfuckers going fuck around and find out. I'm not going to no death camp. And I have LGBT kids the fuck if I will allow them to be taken. Be warned when ICE starts coming for trans and gays they going die if they show up at my house. Also we have ADHD people here and people on the spectrum. These fucks will come for us all soon. But I will exercise my second amendment right. After all it was written for shit to protect us against bullshit Trump administration is pulling.
I don't want to be the first but soon or later they will knock on the wrong door, or pull into the wrong neighborhood and people will die. Mostly their side at first. But it's a powderkeg that is going go off soon or later. Unless someone in our goddamn government starts doing their job and put a stop to this shit. And I don't mean with bullshit lawsuits. Our government has the power to impeach this administration and reverse all those EOs.
But guess we will have to wait and see. Until then if you're not armed you're leaving yourself open to be taken.
I have a friend, three tours of duty as an infnatryman in Northern Ireland during thr troubles, two tours of duty as a combat medic in Bosnia, and worked as a paramedic then a police marksman in Canada. He says, "It's all fun and games until you're on a two way range." It's easy to imagine fighting back against the poilce and military but the reality is that they very rarely go down and the people shooting at them very rarely survive. The second ammendment was written in a time when the people and the military used muzzle loaders. All the second ammendment fantasies in the world don't change the fact that one person or a few people up against the police or the military is/are going to die very quickly and very thoroughly. But, by all means, hang on to that thought.
This isn't military, this ICE who right now employing a lot weekend warrior types. This fuckers have no more skill then most of us. Also they aren't expecting people to fight back. Hell most places they raid are immigrant court or schools. Places they feel safe are unarmed. When they see armed crowds they normally just run away.
Also we on the defensive need to band together. Hard to kidnap people if there is a crowd of resistance. Also is your friend wanting or willing to help kidnap or kill his fellow Americans, and lead them off to camps on the demand of Donald Trump?
Aye, there's the rub.
One person with a CCW dies. Every time.
If a bunch of people go up against the government a whole bunch of people die but maybe change happens.
Remember January 6? A whole bunch of people with violent intent invaded the capital baying for blood then a bullet ripped through Ashli Babbitt's chest and she fell to the ground dead. Everyone else thought, "Holy fuck! They're shooting white people!" and it was over.
EDIT: Downvotes against ideas you don't like on Lemmy are just about as effective as your AR-15 is going to be against an armored Humvee mounted with a minigun but by all means, keep up the good fight.