Is this not the reason the second amendment exists? Regards An Australian Edit: I’m not advocating for violence. More so “a well regulated militia” which could be established by protesters or Democratic Governors for genuine self defence.

  • Wakmrow@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’ll give you a real answer instead of all of these other dork ass answers.

    First, there aren’t enough of us to do so.

    Second, you really haven’t thought through the repercussions of open carrying. Which relates to the first reason.

    Open carrying puts a huge target on you. You need lots and lots of people to remain “safe”. And you won’t be safe. What are you going to do, shoot an ice agent if they try to arrest you? If that’s your goal, why open carry? Do you think that the government here is going to suddenly follow constitutional law around a citizens right to bear arms? As they’re literally illegally arresting people?

    Sooner or later the amount of guns in this country is going to catch up to the ruling class but it’s not going to be at a protest.

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      7 hours ago

      I live in a city that’s half black, in one of several gayborhoods. I keep wondering when black and pink panthers will form and start patrolling. Probably when we get hit with our first localized stochastic terrorism incident. There’s a rainbow crosswalk that rednecks love to come do burnouts on. Tensions run high with highly conservative MAGA folks dominating the rural areas just miles from our very flammable houses with rainbow flags.

      But you know what happens when the panthers start patrolling? Suddenly, gun control.

      Our cops wouldn’t arrest them but the feds would probably escalate it. I am not sure how it’d play out today.