911 is a joke and there’s a non-zero chance they’ll kill you if you get the wrong officer and you don’t satisfy their favored supremacist purity criteria. I’d rather be armed and not outsource my safety to someone I cannot trust. I also trust myself to resolve situations in my home with better judgement than a person who more than likely joined the police to live out their violent power fantasies.

I’m having a hard time taking you seriously when you’re discouraging organizing. 2A oriented groups are legitimate forms of organization and have a role to play. This isn’t about becoming an army that will fight the military, it’s about providing security when the state can no longer be trusted to do so and serving as a disincentive to right-wing paramilitary groups.

You’ve got this mixed messaging saying “the real resistance is talking” but alluding to “things beyond that” presumably organized direct action or civil disobedience. Why can’t a 2A group do both of those things?

“Individuals cannot do anything”

The way you’ve framed this encourages apathy and the role we all have to play in any organized movement. Rather, we’re all individuals and we all have a duty to do something. When ‘individuals’ work together with common interest that is the very definition of ‘community’.

How long have you been hanging out with the military folk and officers you mentioned in this thread? I wonder if your harsh judgement of the means others which to assemble and express their rights is being influenced by overexposure to pig-headed thought.

This might be relevant for following ICE around or direct action, but at this point there’s almost zero personal risk from attending something like a rally or a march.

My relatives and even friends my age are afraid to go to protests. They read stuff like this, and it acts as demobilization messaging. In my experience, once you get them to go once they’re no longer afraid to engage, but there’s an initial fear and anticipatory obedience that has to be overcome.

inb4 protests do nothing: getting people to stick their toe in the water helps build commitment that will one day be necessary to gain critical mass for more organized disobedience.

I believe that “When they kick at your front door how you going to come? With your hands on your head or using proper trigger discipline with your gun?” doesn’t fit the syllable count.