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Yes, they have a lot of guns. On the other hand, we've had to tell them, at least twice in my lifetime, not to drink bleach to cure diseases.
They won't last a week.
I'd say there are more gun-owning Democrats than there are critically thinking Republicans. Trump voters are the kind of people that fall for Nigerian prince email scams...twice.
They elect figurative Nigerian princes… every fucking time
You're confusing normal Americans with the owners of the country. Also, plenty of militant leftists are armed in the US and not all gun owners are crazy fascists.
The ones that think they can win a civil war are pretty fucking dumb. They do have a lot of weaponry though and that is something we should be concerned about and needs to be acted on.
A bunch of Dems arming up isn’t the answer though. We need to make sure the war mongers don’t get back in charge and we need to keep hunting down the dangerous threats and arresting there asses.
I've seen enough Doomsday Peppers to know that these "prepared" right wingers will be gasping for breath on the floor when it actually comes time to run and do something physically strenuous. Fat fucks couldn't even breath through a thin mask, their brain cells are the only thing they'll slaughter due to lack of oxygen.
That's what you hope. The reality is that they're armed and militant, and people will be shocked when they start going door to door.
Are you confusing Y'all Quaeda with the Gestapo? Wtf. Even if 100 militias somehow defied everything we've been seeing for decades and somehow evaded getting caught early in the planning phase due to the surveillance state, what makes you think anything they'd do wouldn't be shut down by military police within a week?
It sounds almost like you're getting off on a weird horror fantasy from a super shitty movie.
The denial about encroaching fascism makes about as much sense as denying climate change.
Right, comparing me to a science denying asshole without providing a single shred of argument.. definitely has me convinced now
!RemindMe 1 year
Your ass is not a legitimate source to pull facts from.
As a left leaning individual with multiple firearms and plenty of ammunition for them, might want to consider there are plenty of us are part of that 47%.
Obviously a sample bias, but quite a few fellow veterans that I went to college with could put my meager collection to shame and share similar viewpoints.
That being said, your doomer outlook and gross oversimplification/assumptions are a joke. There will be no civil war, assholes will continue to be assholes, and you are still making this shit up as you type. Most of these Meal Team 6, cosplaying motherfuckers are too chickenshit to have an altercation where they aren't the only one with the scary broomstick, and 99% of the blowhards wouldn't last a day in an actual combat scenario let alone a "war".
Bigots are bigots and will constantly attempt to suppress that which doesn't align with their narrow minded worldview, however a civil war is not on the horizon.... JFC get over yourself.
I think liberal gun owners have 1. A much better grasp of the first rule of fight club, 2. Don't have a fetish about what amounts to a tool.
I take offense of your using "the left" to refer to the unarmed liberal masses.
Ok lib
I think you're confusing us finding you insufferable with us being offended. Your weird little fantasies are cringey and boring, not offensive.
And you think all of that 47% are not only right-leaning, but crazy enough to use those firearms to murder people unprovoked?
What moved you from a centrist to a militant leftist?
500-1k rounds is nothing. Most of us have usually 10-20k rounds. 500 rounds is what I burn through in a range day. Hell I've got probably 50k 22lr at this point alone. And that's just for plinking. 9mm/308/x39/556/54r/20g/12g/45 combined that's probably another 40k rounds.
Most of us buy in bulk, ammo isn't cheap, so when deals come around you buy as much as you can afford.
So I'd say your estimates are on the low end.
Huh? Having ammo doesn't make anything worse. People have been stock piling it for decades now. Ammo doesn't expire if it's properly stored. I don't see how having it magically makes anything worse.
It kinda sounds like you listened to the original run of the "It Could Happen Here" podcast series a few too many times. It could happen here, but the probability of it sparking is very low, and even then the probability of that spark growing beyond anything more than localized/isolated incidents is even lower.
Flat out stupidity, this comment
OH MAN IM SO SCARED
The right seems to be blinded by the thought that the US Military would support them, but luckily the modern US military would never support any side of a civil war and would simply squash any serious attempt of a fascist rebellion. What are they even going to be able to do? They can't shoot down drones with their AR-15s.
They would quash any serious attempt at civil war or revolt of or between any political extreme in order to maintain the current status quo. The government and the military are both owned by the corporate class. The left is a very very small minority in the US and they don't even have a mainstream political influence or party. The US just has the socially liberal right-of-center Democrat party and the far-right conservative Republican party.
Well, I suppose we'll just have to disagree, but even though I find your opinions and perspectives to be mostly generalized embellishments and without nuance I still appreciate you for providing them.
Glad that you agree.
Imagine speaking derisively about anti-fascism. That kind of makes your a fascist.
Right wing gun owners average BMI is like 40+
All the guns in the world won't help you win a war if you can barely walk a mile without getting winded.