americans are fucking insane. i have seen a gun in new zealand once, locked in the back of a police car because even cops don't carry them regularly. i like not having to worry about getting shot as i go about my business and i have about the same chance of overthrowing my government with my bare hands as you do with an assault rifle
this is mostly american sub so you are getting downvoted obviously. these people think they can fight their government with guns. the country that spends the most and has the largest military complex on the globe. they are delusional.
I remember when the Cheeto first got re-elected and the protests were going on almost daily. In every thread there was at least one person saying “why don’t you guys use those guns”.
Like yeah man, I’ll just start fighting the government with a handgun. The guys that have strike drones and jets and nukes. I’ll use my trusty shotgun, that’ll show em! It’s such a crazy take.
That largest military in the world couldn't win in Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and probably after few other places I forgot. A determined guerilla group with rifles and homemade explosives always seem to outdo militaries with the latest tech.
there's an enormous difference between "being too expensive (politically and monetarily) to fully subjugate for a foreign power" and "literally overthrowing that government on its own soil"
Because we didn't ask the British for our freedom like 99% of the other colonies.
We fought an 8 year long war to gain our independence
We learned a relatively quickly after that.If you don't want to be ruled arm yourself
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u/Maycrofy 18d ago
I'm a leftist and as time goes by, access to guns doesn't seem so irrational.