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It's not posturing, it's fair warning. Our adventures in the sandbox suggest your faith in our government's ability to suppress armed rebellion is grossly exce
by hga 11y ago
It's not posturing, it's fair warning.
Our adventures in the sandbox suggest your faith in our government's ability to suppress armed rebellion is grossly excessive. It also had a secure rear area. You're also assuming all the military will agree to this, despite what it'll cost them.
I'm not alluding to anything, I'm frankly stating that, if you and yours succeed in this effort, me and mine will start killing you and yours (assuming you're in the US, of course). And if you think we're limited to out "paltry weapons". you suffer from an extreme lack of imagination.
We've been debating this since at least the 30s, and I'm (not very) sorry to say that your side has decisively lost the debate. Sucks to be you, but in balance I like the result.
- mildbow 11y agoYou are doing it again. "killing you and yours"? Give me a break. If rebellion or change is what you really want to affect, then you would be better served to look into how Gandhi managed to win against overwhelming odds, rather than whatever hollywood(?) fantasy you envision living out. Yeah, I have guns just like I have other tools and toys. But I don't have the same chip on my shoulder. If there needs to be a rebellion, I will be reaching for my camera and my twitter account, not my walther.
- hga 11y agoIf rebellion or change is what you really want to affect No, not in the least. Leave me and mine alone, and you'll be perfectly safe from us. Sure, I'd like for my brethren in California, Hawaii and the northeast (well, if you count Maryland and D.C. as part of that) to be less oppressed, but they can vote with their feet. As I did when I left Massachusetts. Gandhi won against an exhausted, civilized empire. Change the antagonist and he's a forgotten anonymous corpse.