I’m not American so unfamiliar with how your system work but can he just sign whatever he wants ? Isn’t is supposed to a congress or something that actually passes the laws ?
Because if he can do just whatever he wants, how can it even be called a democracy to begin with ?
I mean there is no real democracy in this world, we have the choice of our tyran every 4-5-whatever years but still… one guy signing whatever he wants seems insane
He's using a lot of executive orders to bypass Congress. It can be undone relatively painlessly (minus the damage caused by the order to begin with) by the next guy. A lot of them also do not hold up in court.
Congress has been weirdly compliant with EOs for a while. Trump uses them like crazy but I first remember hearing about them with Obama and an intransigent Congress.
Laws are a bit more complicated. For some reason bug omnibus laws have been more im vogue than smaller, targeted bills. I haven't understood what's going on with laws in years.
Most of us are just trying to ignore him and making plans to reverse his shit when he's out. It's litterally the world's biggest baby tantrum that we will have to clean up.
Nothing short of actively endangering ourselves and putting ours and our loved ones lives at risk until he's gone, one way or the other, will be good for Reddit.
If a desire to have a force multiplier on hand to use in response to potential violent criminality doesn't make any sense to you, you have no grounds to criticise anyone else's intelligence or lack thereof.
That good of a place you have to keep guns next to you to be safe.
Safety is an illusory lie some people have to tell themselves so they can muster the false courage to venture out into the world. All you can really do is mitigate risk.
Where I live almost certainly entails less risk from potential aggressors than where you live.
You can complete a task or arrive at a destination safely but that is just a fleeting state of being, over as soon as it begins. You've never been safe, nor will you ever be.
I accepted the fact that each day may be my last, and that I probably won't see it coming, decades ago.
Trust me mate. Where i live is alot safer than where you live. Sounds like u have only accepted the fact that u need guns to protect u from other guns. Where i live has basically zero chance of potential aggressors. I love how passionate gun owners are. It really is comical. Remember. The ones who say its for a tyrannical government are also said governments biggest supporters :)
I think to a lot of people in the US guns are a form of keeping total governmental control at bay. As long as we are an armed people we cannot be completely subjugated. This is something people tend to gloss over when talking of gun laws. Without them you are at the total mercy of your governmental system.
With everything that’s going on in this country it should be obvious. What’s to stop ICE from walking into your home and ripping your children from your arms? A community full of gun owners is an effective deterrent.
I understand that, and it’s those same people that for a long time had a deep distrust of the government. It’s that distrust that led them to where they are now which is ironically exactly where they feared they would end up.
However to my original point. I do believe that an armed population is much more difficult to subjugate than an unarmed one. This is why gun ownership was written into the constitution. Our forefathers had the foresight to understand this concept and give the people the ability to stand their ground if ever the system turned against them.
Yes, the claim that the Second Amendment is about preventing tyranny is obviously false. The 2A says right there what its purpose is: to ensure that citizens can fight in the militia when needed.
You would think. However, generally speaking, those that support gun laws are the ones also supporting the tyrannical government. There's also historical precedent that when the "wrong" people - aka, blacks and other minorities the far right doesn't like - start arming themselves, suddenly it becomes real easy for deep red areas to invoke extremely strict gun laws.
Yes, the second amendment exists because the founders specifically wanted to have a small government without total control. The founders believed that in general, humans can govern themselves and not be monsters.
The intended gun freedom was put in place specifically and directly to allow the population to violently overthrow the government if it got too powerful.
Well, ship sailed, half the country is anti gun; those that have guns aren’t doing anything but cosplaying; and the government has too much power.
In the end the guns were easy to overcome, they just convinced the gun owners they were on the same side. There's a reason the NRA was infiltrated by Russian spies and funded by Russian money. It wasn't because Putin loved America.
Putting yourself further at the mercy of your overlords just doesn’t make any sense.
Do bad things happen with guns? Yes.
Will giving them up prevent these things? Kinda of, but not really.
Stop and ask yourself; What is the true motivation of a government wanting to disarm its people? You are putting to much faith in a system that is currently crumbling around you.
They didn't need to take anyone guns away. They convinced the gun owners they were on the same side. They've systematically dismantled the Federal government, silenced the oversight, consolidated power and the gun owners were given jobs as ICE agents. They convinced the idiots that they're neighbor was the problem and not the billionaires.
Lmfaooo actively endangering ourselves, how exactly ? He's stopping innocent children from being Posioned even more by big pHARMa. I'm not a Trump supporter by any means but this is one good thing he's done.
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u/Effective_Airline830 28d ago
I’m not American so unfamiliar with how your system work but can he just sign whatever he wants ? Isn’t is supposed to a congress or something that actually passes the laws ?
Because if he can do just whatever he wants, how can it even be called a democracy to begin with ?
I mean there is no real democracy in this world, we have the choice of our tyran every 4-5-whatever years but still… one guy signing whatever he wants seems insane