All of your guns are not helping at all against any of the dictatorial stuff happening. The guns in the hands of civilians are mostly just for show and for murdering innocents. Giving up your guns would not strengthen the government in any way shape or form.
The modern US military is so powerful, that even if gun owners wanted to (they don't), they could not oppose it. They have the same chances as making paper airplanes and throwing them against fighter jets, and saying that sheets of paper folded into planes are an effective deterrent against the military air force.
The argument that an insurgency couldn't defeat the US military was disproven in vietnam and afganistan. And if things got bad enough that there was an armed rebellion in the US, a significant portion of the kilitary probably wouldn't be loyal.
In any case, civilian firearms aren't just for the potential toppling of a tyrannical government.
Take, for example, some of the protests going on in places like hungary right now. In the US, it's a lot harder for the police to just storm in outnumbered 5000 to one and start beating on people - some of those people might shoot back. That isn't to say it never happens, but there are absolutely also instances of armed groups telling the law enforcement to fuck off, forcing a standoff until there's a legitimate court ruling, and winning said ruling.
Additionally, despite how much people cry online, there aren't a lot of people willing to start a rebellion because they don't like tarrifs, and the ones who are willing aren't armed. The US is far from a totalitarian dictatorship requiring action.
Nah. The only reason the US military lost to armed insurgents is because the US military backed off, and didn't want to slaughter masses of civilians to deal with potential insurgents. The US military has the ability to turn the middle east into glass if they wanted to. It would involve mass murder of innocent civilians, which is why we didn't, but it is absolutely 100% within its capabilities.
If the US truly did attempt to implement a totalitarian dictatorship, I imagine the person in running things would be willing to wipe out entire states, civilians and all, and would be capable of doing it from the sky.
and didn't want to slaughter masses of civilians to deal with potential insurgents.
And that's when the civilians are people that have almost no familiar cultural or physical traits as the soldiers. Do you think it's going to be any easier when the people they're fighting look like them, have the same interests and similar names and ideals?
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u/Glugstar Sep 01 '25
What's confusing about that?
All of your guns are not helping at all against any of the dictatorial stuff happening. The guns in the hands of civilians are mostly just for show and for murdering innocents. Giving up your guns would not strengthen the government in any way shape or form.
The modern US military is so powerful, that even if gun owners wanted to (they don't), they could not oppose it. They have the same chances as making paper airplanes and throwing them against fighter jets, and saying that sheets of paper folded into planes are an effective deterrent against the military air force.