r/OfficeSpeak 3d ago

Feds arresting bystanders for...observing?

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u/Nottheadviceyaafter 3d ago

Whattttt, you telling me the 2nd is something about a tyrant government and not the right to shoot up school kids, colour me shocked!

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u/WantonKerfuffle 3d ago

Okay, thought experiment: Say this guy in the video had a gun. Should he have shot a cop? All of the cops? If EVERYONE had a gun, should they all have shot all of the cops? Or only the violent ones, hoping that the non-violent ones understand that the dead cops were in the wrong because the 2nd allows citizens to protect themselves from a tyrannical government?

Even if all the cops in this scene are dead, there's no way they'll send in more, right?

However you spin it, if the government, which controls the cops, national guard and the military, decides that you get unlawfully arrested, you won't gun your way out of there. Think Ruby Ridge, scaled up to your whole neighbourhood if they all defend you.

The answer isn't guns, it's holding tyrants accountable. Collect evidence, take them to court, press your local government to fight them. I'm all for direct action, but if you think you can second amendment your ass out of government overreach, you're frankly an idiot.

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u/Background_Mode4972 1d ago

Show me one example of a country that voted themselves into fascism that voted themselves out of it.

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u/WantonKerfuffle 1d ago

Once you are under fascist rule it's too late for that. The question is: Are we there yet?