• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    It’s not like armed insurgencies don’t happen in modern countries. Look up the IRA. Even if you are not keen on blowing up billionaires, you can still shoot meal team six as they try to bring back lynching and the KKK.

    That said, disarming the country including the police, especially the police, would be more conductive to a peaceful life. So would actual democratic representation.

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      9 months ago

      Absolutely not, I’m all for defunding the police but if your idea of a peaceful country doesn’t involve someone owning and being willing to defend themselves with firearms you’re just living in a fantasy where crime just magically doesn’t exist.

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        9 months ago

        In my part of the world, people grow up just fine without owning firearms. This whole gun worship is mostly a US thing.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, and they kill them and also some others, and some guy’s wife. The guy takes up arms in revenge and the cycle continues.

        It’s not an open armed rebellion, it’s constant terror attacks. How do you send in the military to quell a car bombing or an assassination?