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.

  • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Why? If the population here was as committed as a population overseas I hardly see what the difference is, besides the fact that Americans are way better armed.

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      4 hours ago

      Americans are stupid enough to have put all their personal information into facebook and wouldn’t know how to organize without a billionaire fascist’s big brother app.

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      22 hours ago

      A military fighting on their own soil is going to be much stronger infrastructure- and intelligence-wise vs. if they’re fighting on foreign soil

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        22 hours ago

        I mean you know that literally all of those wars had collaborators. Entire collaborationist states, in large part. It didn’t help South Vietnam.