Maine Mass Shooting

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(10-30-2023, 02:29 PM)GMDino Wrote: And that's why anyone talking about it ridiculous.  

The question is, if we want to play "slippery slope" when the fascists take over and they are republican will they come for your guns?  Or do own democrat fascists do that? 

No one can take our guns.  Guns are like cancer (I know cancer is bad, but let's just call it a neutral thing for the sake of argument).  Other countries confiscated and regulated guns the way someone with cancer can have a single tumor removed and treated.  The USA for good or ill is a cancer patient with guns like tumors so numerous and deeply embedded within that the amount of chemo or radiation or surgery required to remove them would instantly kill the proverbial patient.  So guns are here to stay.

My main point is that accepting that, I agree with the notion that guns and using guns to influence the government are a USA thing...but that doesn't always mean that we are going to use guns and our American style of government influence to empower the right or best government.  If/when we end up being a fascist nation it will be facilitated by the American "we have the guns and we own the government" mindset.  Just because we have another 1776 doesn't mean it's going to be for the best.

A dictator in a small country with no constitutional right to guns can take guns as part of the strategy, conversely a dictator here is going to realize that guns and the citizens who love 'em and will use 'em are crucial to that strategy.

Or think of it as a real life situation.  If/when someone pulls a gun on you or shows you he/she has a gun you can't change that reality, you have to change the situation to the best of your ability.