• Shapillon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Or a revolution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    (agreed we’re not there but that’s another use of civilians owning warfare weapons)

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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly the argument that conservatives always give for gun ownership. But like, how would they possibly overrun the largest military in the world with their personal arsenals?

      Maybe they could take a city but I can’t see it being a long lasting victory.

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        Insurgent forces are always scary. They know where to hide and they get creative with weaponry. This isn’t the revolutionary war with people marching side by side taking shots at the other side.

        Besides, that’s assuming the military is 100% cohesive in war operations inside this country and against other Americans.

        Oh, and ignoring that it might just be the conservatives in power that would be the aggressor and the rest defending themselves from fascists.

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        This is the meal team six we’re talking about lol. One of them would pull out a gun, get shot, then the others would give up right there to go back watching their fox news and drinking diet coke.

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        The biggest military in the world seems to have trouble with insurgents. See Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

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      Meal team 6 ain’t going to put up a fight lmao. There is zero chance these dumb random civilians have the ability or desire to kill all the cops. These are the same chuds that want police more heavily armed too and “back the blue”. It would literally never happen.

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        Good thing we had hellfire missiles to establish a permanent and stable government in Afghanistan

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        yeah it would be like a group of settlers going up against the greatest army in the world and somehow winning. absolutely no way that ever happens, or has ever happened, to my knowledge twice at least

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          Did that army have hellfire missiles and nukes? Or was it maybe the case that this army you mean back then was occupied with more important matters and the settlers had help of powerful other countries? Lets be real, if there ever was a full on authocracy in america it would be celebrated by half your population, usually the gun owning population. All the dictator would need to do is promise to hurt some kind of minority.

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            i dont know, did the us army have hellfire missiles and nukes in the vietnam war? which they pulled out of because farmers with guns was too much for them to face?

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              Oh god what a dumb take. Vietnam was an aggressive war in unknown terrain. A civil war in the own country against your military is completely different. That scenario is so completely stupid, because half your population would be on the governments side. Meanwhile your fear of a hypethetical scenario kills your kids.

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        1 year ago

        What a dummy take. “You’re helpless against missiles and jets, so why fight back in the first place”

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          1 year ago

          More “Why do you use this excuse even though it has no merit at all, when the thing you want to keep is killing your children in the thousands each year?”