Me too. Thanks.
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The real problem, is people being stupid enough to believe owning guns is going to protect them from a fascist government. (Hint they won't)
The only hope is voting against fascists NOW. Once they get control, that gun in your closet ain't going to save you.
And yet the only BLM protests during the summer that didn't get blasted with beanbags and pepperballs were the ones where armed protesters stood in front of police. It's almost like fascists do not relish the thought of taking on armed citizenry.
I have a kind of problem with rhetoric like this, because it implies that shooting and killing fascists is broadly an ineffective tactic, which I do not believe to be the case
Do you have a problem with gravity? I mean it's going to be the same thing... Especially since most of the gun nuts that believe "they could do something" are going to be cheering the fascist government on while it goes after lbqt, immigrants, non Christians, libtards... And by the time they realize something's wrong there ain't going to be jack shit to do about it. (See Nazi Germany in the late 30's when the population started realizing this shit might not be cool) History repeats...
Shooting and killing fascists generally is not effective as a spontaneous demonstration of opposition.
If you've ascended to the point of shooting and killing fascists, acquiring weapons is probably pretty low on your list of practical problems to solve (in order to be able to shoot and kill fascists).
I mean do we have a whole lot of like, examples of this happening as a case of action? I really can't think of any, I dunno if we'd be able to ascertain it's efficacy without that.
Lots, generally in the lead-up and early years of fascist takeovers. Lone wolf assassinations, attacks by small groups, the like. The 20s had numerous anti-fascist assassinations, and the early-mid 30s had anti-Nazi assassinations.
Effective resistance movements only develop out of the roots of organization, direction, and subversion, at which point there are numerous paths to getting the needed weapons and shooting some fascists. Prior gun ownership is a footnote in such operations at best - a liability at worst.
The other points are well taken, I wasn't really thinking so much along those lines. Dunno so much what lines I was thinking along honestly. Probably armed resistance leading up to a fascist government, including armed protest sort of thing, which doesn't really involve shooting people so much as it does just kinda standing around with a gun so other people don't get shot most of the time, I think.