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Unfortunately the ones who say that about 2A are on the side of the nationalists.

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I’m clairvoyant and I can see the future: They won’t. It’s always been all bark and no bite when it comes to armed revolution here in the states.

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Well I suppose not always. We did have a revolutionary war and a civil war.

But anybody alive today? Less bite than a newborn.

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Also the Whiskey rebellion and Union/county wars, but nobody remembers them because they were relatively small. Also a lot of Rednecks especially Boomers and Gen X ended up being fucken bootlickers, sure there are some of us within Gen Z who are trying to revers the damage but well culture rarely moves fast.

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2A has been toothless for awhile. What good is stock modded AR15 supposed to do against tanks and fighters jets.

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To be fair, the fighting would be guerilla warfare which the us hasn’t been that great at dealing with.

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might have a tough time as a guerilla when your maga neighbors are informing on you

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It’s still good enough to shoot people who accidentally step on your lawn, or the teachers and co-students you had a disagreement with.

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5 points

20 years of war, 2,459 US lives, plus about 3 months.

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When a group of American freedom fighters go to take over a U.S.A. military base and hesitant soldiers aren’t sure if they should follow a traitorous president or their oath to the Constitution, the American freedom fighters being well-armed will make the difference.

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Exactly why I think americans who say the 2A needs to stay to overthrow a fascist government is full of shit. I would love to be proven wrong though

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We could probably mount a pretty decent resistance with what we have available. look what happened in iraq during the occupation. insurgency would be the way to go in a rebellion against the us govt.

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cough Vietnam cough

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And that’s why they didn’t bother with guns in Iraq. Defeating the Americans was hopeless; mission accomplished.

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This response is so weird I can’t quite tell what your point is. Are you suggesting that the Iraqis resisted with small arms fire? Because that’s not the case.

More US citizens die each year in the US from guns than US soldiers died in the entirety of the Iraq war. And it’s not a small difference either - each year 4-5x as many citizens die from gun violence. Not including suicides (which would more than double the number)

So was your post trying to say the small arms resistance in Iraq was effective?

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Lol yeah right.

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