• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    Fun fact: many of the founding fathers of the United states and its constitution viewed the second amendment as a means to allow the people to have a check against their government.

    I used to think that there was no way people could form an effective insurgency against the US military, but… [gestures at Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, etc]

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      5 hours ago

      The boxcars are always full of people who dont understand what “be ungovernable” means and who think that invoking the 2A means that citizens with AR-15s line up in a field against the entire US military.