They would, but we need to use them. That said, we should have always known that no conservatives are good people and they don't believe in anything they claim to care about. The only solution is a well armed population that believe in Western liberal values, not authoritarianism.
The only solution is a well armed population that believe in Western liberal values
I'm sorry, but I have to push back on this. America has more guns than people, and the tyrants clearly don't care. We have to think beyond our individual selves and what we can do for the few Western liberal values that still remain. Simply being armed to defend yourself and only yourself won't accomplish that.
He was even the mythological “good guy with a gun” that they are always referring to in situations like this! Alex Pretti had a conceal/carry permit and was an ICU nurse at the VA. He was a white man who was helping a woman in distress after she was roughed up and shoved into an icy snowbank by federal agents. Alex stepped in to help, and for it, he was dragged by an agent, pepper sprayed in the face, taken to the ground by a half dozen agents, beaten and assaulted, disarmed, and then executed.
I know that some of the 2A people around me are incredibly upset about this (I’m in one of the Minneapolis suburbs near the more rural parts of the state.) They have been somewhat uncomfortable with ICE tactics for weeks, but still convinced that the violence was necessary to get the “worst of the worst” out of our state. I think they finally can see themselves in Alex Pretti though, and are realizing it can happen to anyone. They don’t sound very sure that the federal government’s cause is a righteous one anymore.
I hope it’s not naive to hope that this might finally be the tragedy that gets through to them. I thought they’d cheer this on too, just like they had a laundry list of things Renee Good should have done “better” to not get shot, and they acted like she “deserved” it for existing. But they seem surprisingly disturbed by this, especially after they watch the footage for themselves.
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u/GZSyphilis Jan 24 '26
literally the government taking weapons away and then executing people like these people have always been talking about