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The non-GOP party spent the last 40 years demonizing guns and disarming themselves.
That's how it worked out.
But the blame rests on people who didn't disarm for not wanting to become "lone wolfs".
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.
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.
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.
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.