Yeah, it's almost like people walking around with guns is a bad idea.

Yeah, somebody should do something about that. Masked men with guns and unlimited immunity aren't good to have around in your community.

Oh, wait, you meant the victim.

Por qué no los dos?

(To borrow a meme.)

You might as well imagine no religion while you're at it. It's easy if you try... but it's not going to happen.

So we might as well stop arguing that the government should have a monopoly on tools of violence. These people should be afraid of us, and not the other way around.

>"Yeah, it's almost like people walking around with guns is a bad idea."

When those people are ICE it definitely is. I think those motherfuckers should be wearing straightjackets

Same goes for law enforcement, but it's a Constitutional right that the right does not want to amend.

The group of Americans who are the loudest at cheering for the 2nd Amendment rights are cheering for ICE these days. To them, "the security of a free State" means that it has a caste system with the "good guys" at the top, and when ICE goons execute Minnesotans, they see brave armed citizens fighting back against the tyranny of wokeness.

The truth of this hurts my soul

What I've observed is that Americans like to put themselves higher than other cultures due to their second amendment rights (and first, but that's neither here nor there), but when push comes to shove there's actually no real positive outcomes that come from having a country with it's citizens armed to the extent that Americans are.

And we've seen what allowing people to promote hate speech with no restraint does to a nation.

When it's over, and it will be, Americans need to start from scratch, iterate and write a new constitution, create new institutions and build a new system.

We've also seen what very rigid hate speech policing does to a nation in Germany... and AfD seems to be doing pretty well.

It's almost as if those laws are mostly just performative bullshit that doesn't actually prevent the spread of violent ideologies when the environment is conductive to them.

Fair, but we need to account for the influence of the 1st-amendment-propelled far right discourse in the US on German politics to know how (in)effective German speech laws are.

Everything makes much more sense when you realize that the conservative project is not about universal application of rights. It is a system of hierarchies. They have rights. We do not. They can carry firearms. We are violent maniacs trying to massacre cops (according to Bovino) and deserve what's coming.

The 2nd amendment was more about suppressing slave revolts than liberating slaves.