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You think your pistol will help you against the police "when the train start runnung"? What do you intend to do with it, shoot a tank in the eye?
Your gun will get you killed, and that's about it.
Collective action.
America has an unregistered firearm for each American. If the army culls the general population. Now there's no supply chain. No food. No clothes. No ammo. What good is a tank that has run out of gas due to shooting the man who delivered it?
Seven steps before this scenario might occure, a dark van with three armored guys comes to your house to question you, and if you so much as brandish your gun, they will legally shoot you dead. And before you fantasise more about glorious revolutions and tachankas on the streets of Washington, I need to remind you that you didn't managed to get enough momentum to vote twice in a row, and escaping to live in the forest and sabotage delivery chains requires way more commitment than marking a paper once every two years.
And that's probably a good thing. Hell doesn't exist, but the closest thing to an eternity in hell is a day in a city torn by a civil war.
everytime i see this argument it just makes me think of some fascist trying to get the populace to give up their guns so the take over is much easier
That's because your version of civil resistance comes from exaggerated American myth of cowboys mixed with the imagery of civil wars in impoverished countries.
If your fear was about a civil war and roaming bands of rednecks on trucks with a bunch of rifles, then yeah, imagine defending your homestead Rambo style all you want, we all seen mad max. But if you're worried about fascist government, then the only difference your gun makes is that you will be Branched Davidianed instead of dark van disappeared, and I am pretty sure that's not the fantasy here.
The only way to beat fascism from the inside is the community, mutual aid, resistance, not fantasising about shootouts with the gestapo.
It's about time to start using those weapons to take down the bad people, and dumbfucks are still waiting for some dude in 18th century old clothes to stand in their front door with an old revolver asking to get shot.
These people have weird wet dreams.
Modern warfare kills you and your whole block with a drone in your sleep.
If there's a pistol behind every blade of grass it becomes a problem.
If every meeting needs an armed security sweep it becomes a problem.
If every raid has to be tactically sound it becomes a problem.
If every ICE agent gets PTSD it becomes a problem.
If you are in a situation where your people are behind every blade of grass, sitting with a gun, what the fuck are you doing then, you won already, you have exactly the ingredients for the systematic change, big and dedicated community.
But if you don't have big enough community to change or at least affect the government, you are sure as shit don't have big enough community to enact whatever Rambo fantasies you have. You have enough people to be hunted like an animal and be made an example of what happens when a small group of lunatics are starting to think they can affect the faschistic machine with a pistol.
I was paraphrasing.
I know. The reason he said it is because he knew that there will be millions of Americans with millions of guns fighting the invasion.
And I know that there will be no millions of Americans fighting the fascism. You will be happy to see dozens. Realistically you will have less.