• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I heard that argument so often that the second amendment is there to overthrow tyrannical governments and I heard that from the people claiming that they need guns for that explicit purpose. For work reasons I have quite a bit to do with people from the mountain west and that’s a very common talking point there.

    What we can do is defend our families, neighbors and ourselves when ICE comes knocking.

    That’s seriously even more whack than thinking a bunch of gun nuts could overthrow the government with a “well regulated militia”.

    When you start shooting at ICE, you get another Waco massacre.

    Look at any (and I repeat ANY) other example of a country sliding into fascism. Name even one where owning a gun and “defending” yourself or your family lead to anything but all of them laying dead on the floor.