3 ms·
I'm having trouble of thinking of anyone trying to use the threat of violence to change the government in the USA in the past 30 years except for the Unabomber
by stevenwoo 9y ago
I'm having trouble of thinking of anyone trying to use the threat of violence to change the government in the USA in the past 30 years except for the Unabomber (because he wrote that manifesto) or the usual white supremacist separatist movements that refuse to recognize the federal government so 2nd amendment doesn't really matter to them anyways.
- user982 9y agoThe system works.
- krapp 9y agoMore likely, common decency and humanity works. Some Americans like to talk a good game about "watering the Tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants," but not many are really willing to cross that moral threshold of looking their neighbor square in the eye and shooting them dead where they stand. Not because they're sheep, or cowards, or collaborators with the system, but because the thesis of the Second Amendment is no longer compatible with what most people consider to be the principles of civilized society. Killing is no longer the privilege of gentlemen.
- Waterluvian 9y agoMaybe progress looks like the moonwalk. Things are getting better while constantly looking like they're getting worse? Maybe it's the pessimist in me but I'm surprised how little awful vigilantism occurs. It's kind of reassuring: there's a huge amount of rhetoric (free speech) compared to actual criminal action.