[itsanaccount]

I'm delighted by this split brained reality in America.

"facts" as stated by a particular left group. - Cops are oppressive, unreformable and should be abolished - The GOP has become fascist and are looking to overthrow the government - The rich will choose to murder us all slowly via climate change and retreat as they did during the pandemic to let the masses suffer

AND

- We should outlaw everyman gun ownership because of the harm it causes.

It occurs to me that its probably a projection of our first-past-the-post political system that means these views all get amalgamated together, because they sure don't make logical sense.

[amanaplanacanal]

They make sense if you assume one thing: gun owners are never going to rise up and throw out the bad guys in government. If that is never going to happen, all those guns are really only used to kill a bunch of innocent people, rather than the bad guys in government.

If you think gun owners are really somehow going to save us from fascists at the top, when is that gonna start, exactly? What would actually get them to start fighting? I frankly don’t see it ever happening.

I know our national myth of the American revolution is that freedom loving patriots are going to rise up and throw off the oppressors, but that is a pipe dream. The answers are in the ballot box, not the cartridge box.

[itsanaccount]

Did you read the parent post I was replying to?

All those guns are going to kill a bunch of people because the other side, you I'm guessing in this case, have decided to willfully disarm yourself because you believe the ballot box is the sole savior. I expect because such people are afraid of accepting a world in which they must be responsible for their own safety.

Along that same path, I'm not worried about a fascist in Washington DC, I'm worried about the one next door. The ones who see some queer kids stocking up at a rural store, and follow them to their campsite to tell em they aren't welcome with threats, and destroy their sense of safety. (Speaking from experience) Ballot box doesn't fix that, but couple weekends of pistol training and drills can help.

[mikrotikker]

Do you suppose that Jews in 1930s Germany would have suffered such horrific treatment had they been armed?