Maine Mass Shooting

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(10-30-2023, 06:32 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: If what you claim is true, why is confiscation repeatedly brought up by the Dems when these incidents occur?  Also, an armed populace is anathema to a totalitarian state, they literally cannot both exist at the same time.  Nazi Germany?  Disarmed populace.  Soviet Union? Disarmed populace.  Iran? Disarmed populace.  North Korea? Disarmed populace. Communist China?  Disarmed populace.

This stuff is brought up by both sides because it gets votes and makes money.  Vote for me and donate to me and I'll make sure we have fewer guns in these dangerous hands, vote for me and donate to me and I'll make sure we have more guns in safe hands.  Also, buy this gun before they ban it.  I know people who want gun control and I know people who will twist anything into "It's all so they can take our guns."  This stuff motivates on both sides, so when I was born in 81 until the day I die people are going to be talking about how we need more/less gun control.  It is a certainty.

(10-30-2023, 06:32 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Find me one authoritarian state that had, or has, an armed populace.

Stay tuned.  Maybe everything stays swell, but I'm telling you if this country ever becomes authoritarian it will be done with the willing participation of an armed populace that has been cajoled into fighting and dying to make it authoritarian under the belief that they are doing the opposite thing.  We've been told CANDIDATE B is an authoritarian, so we need to use our 2A to compel people to vote for CANDIDATE A.  

I have to level with you, I'm a bit of a coward and if people are using their 2A to make sure their candidate gets elected I'm probably going to let them get away with it.  All I can do is hope that they are using that 2A to compel the government to be not authoritarian.  Much like any situation where someone is waving a gun around, your best defense is the faint hope that the person with said gun has enough foresight to not use it for something bad.

So I'm not saying having guns will lead to USA authoritarianism, but if we become authoritarian it will be due to the will of citizens with guns.  You can't take the guns from the citizens, so you bring them into your cause.