Yeah – this be dumb AF.
I don’t think ‘feeling safe’ is the goal so much as the understanding that the Nazis are making a huge comeback, and that votes and protest signs don’t generally do a great job of killing Nazis.
Like, if you’re going down anyway, might as well bag a few Nazis on your way out; or maybe you see some Nazis harrassing someone and you’re a safe distance away with a rifle.
So… you could be part of solving a gigantic problem, but it will 100% not make you safe. To the contrary, it’ll make you a target.
Bullshit, I don’t advocate for getting a gun right now because it will “make you feel safe” you dingus, we arm up because… I cannot stress this enough, we have a corrupt regime using death-squads to haul people to concentration camps FFS.
I don’t care how you feel, I care about making sure the powers that be understand that if they start using force to exert will across the US, then it will be a door-to-door meat-grinder. That is political capital, not a safety blanket, and if you have your emotions tied to gun ownership in any way, you ARE just as bad as MAGA.
Armed minorities are harder to suppress.
Let’s not forget that we didn’t get any form of gun control in the US until the Black Panthers started walking around with guns. They absolutely do NOT want minority groups armed. If a racist, bigoted group doesn’t want you to have a thing… you should probably consider having that thing.
I mean, they are building giant concentration camps across the USA right now.
Eh.
I’m a liberal and I’m getting one because the writing on the wall indicates our democracy is coming to an end and things are about to get a whole lot less safe.
Welcome aboard.
I mean, yah it’s unstable now and scary and we are seeing things happening we never thought we’d see on US soil… and this is just the start. Even if the political environment changes around midterms and 2028, we still have a whole world that is crumbling from forces of unfettered capitalism and authoritarianism and a dumbed-down populace.
We are going to have climate problems that will be very severe, we are going to large numbers of people displaced and moving around, and nothing stokes violence and new regimes like displaced populations, and we have AI rising as a weapon that will make nukes look quaint, so we should all hunker down for whatever is coming next and take every possible precaution.
It’s not going to make you safer. Best you can hope for is to take some of the motherfuckers with you when they come for you.
That is literally the idea, nobody expects to be able to stand up to the US military if they get deployed against us, but it will absolutely keep that worst-case from happening if the people leading that military realize that every house, every door they kick down, will have a shotgun pointed at the door.
As long as they know that a militarization of our domestic society will lead to a door-to-door meat grinder, they won’t commit to that approach.
John Brown’s body lies a-molderin’ in the grave
But his soul goes marching on
