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The idea of being armed as a deterrent to authority is historically true. You don't even need to use violence, just being capable of it is enough.
Republicans worshipping cops while encouraging mentally ill teenagers to own 15 guns is not, however.
Republicans also utterly fail to realize corporate power and government power are the same thing.
This right here. Reminds me of a quote:
"Being incapable of violence doesn't make you a pacifist, it makes you harmless."
Choosing to be civil, and being capable enough to deter would-be oppressors, are not mutually exclusive values.
This one ALWAYS bothered me. I don't understand it! They freak out about income taxes and regulations and wax nostalgic about fantasy-1776 and scream about "freedom", but their daily lives are more shaped and worsened by their hierarchy of petty bosses, who they'll simp for and hold them blameless at every turn, even while grumbling about how their job is getting worse and then turning around and bragging about their "work ethic" and how little they slept this week.
It's gotta be stressful holding so many mind-tearing contradictions together. It's an entire ideology of corporate sock puppeteering.
I don't understand the deterrent thing. The US dominates the globe militarily and the corporations responsible for the anthropocene extinction enjoy property rights enforced by that military. How is being armed going to stop them from continuing?
The US military hasn't done shit but lose to irregular combatants for decades.
Yeah. When they invade and occupy countries for decades, they kill hundreds of thousands of people and eventually go home. So the plan then is for everyone to form irregular militias and engage in decades of guerilla warfare?