Im one of those guys who think we should make America better and then disarm the cops.
Disarming everyday Americans is never going to happen, never mind disarming local/city/state police.
I'm one of those guys who wants non-fascists to start arming themselves because I think it's a bad idea to only allow fascists and fascist-adjacent people to be armed. The entire point of this thread and my comment here and elsewhere are about that. Texas might have a "regulated militia" that actually has the intent of murdering undesirables - or as they will put it, to defend themselves from illegal immigrants and Trans people. That is where a "strict" reading of the 2A won't do what you hope it will do. In fact, most genocides occur under color of law.
Not prohibited, but nothing in the US Constitution guarantees them the individual right to carry firearms (as actually written, and as interpreted for the first 200 years of the country's existence, until the NRA and "Conservative" justices re-wrote it)
For the first 150 years of the Constitution, there were almost zero federal laws regarding gun control. Certain localities might have had laws prohibiting individuals from carrying inside certain jurisdictions, or prohibiting non-whites from owning guns, but like above, that's how fascists get you. Not by individually carrying an AR-15 into COSTCO. It's by limiting the rights of minority groups from defending themselves, and then when the time is right, murdering those people under color of law.
Well, in the military, if you aren't on watch, the guns are locked in a small arms safe. They've got sense.
Sure. And a responsible gun owner isn't walking around with an AR-15 when they go to COSTCO. Just owning a firearm doesn't make you a right-wing authoritarian. In fact, if you go far enough left, you get your guns back.
If someone had some magical way to go back 200 years, uninvent the modern firearm, and then fast-forward to today and make modern firearms illegal, you might win me over. But here in objective, observable reality, there are hundreds of millions of firearms in this country and no, they are never going to be rounded up and turned into ploughshares. MAD isn't just for nuclear weapons anymore, and hoping that limiting firearms to only fascists and their military wing is an ongoing own-goal I believe "liberals" need to stop trying to score.
Or, as other people have said tongue-in-cheek, arm enough minorities and maybe you'll see Republicans actually advocating for some kind of gun control laws.
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