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An armed and fighting anti-slaver, gave his life for the cause.
Modern liberals: "Give up your guns!"
No. Hard no.
Here it come, bring it:
"LOL, you'll die fighting you pathetic loser!"
Yeah. Might work out that way. Probably will if they come for me, much prefer dying with my boots on thank you very much. But I'm not laying down a coward, begging the cops to spare my life.
Think on this my gun grabbing friends; What if the local cops or feds thought they were walking into your home might be Ruby Ridge II Bugaloo? FFS, so many of us being armed is the only reason the fascists haven't overrun us yet.
Apologies to my white, suburban brothers, did I break your concentration?
Uh, I mean, John Brown wasn't exactly fighting his war with legal guns, so the modern context of liberals being in favor of gun control isn't all that applicable. "Beecher's Bibles" were illegally shipped into Bleeding Kansas, John Brown butchered a few slavers with a broadsword (very metal), and his most prominent action involved raiding a government armory in order to get guns.
Think on this my gun grabbing friends; What if the local cops or feds thought they were walking into your home might be Ruby Ridge II Bugaloo?
Not sure that defending a white nationalist twat is really the left take you want here.
Excellent point! But no, in the fight against fascism, I don't particularly care where one gets their guns. As to legality, the bad guys are doing it, why not all of us?
As to legality, the bad guys are doing it, why not all of us?
I would only find that argument compelling in the context of advocating for the complete overthrow of the current government. Otherwise it just sounds an awful lot like LARPing of the same sort that... well, militia movement types who glorify Ruby Ridge engage in.
The alternative is simply trusting the state will wield their violent powers fair and justly.
There are numerous steps one can take to provide oversight to the actions of a state that do not include a literal arms race between the civilian population and the state. I would go so far as to say that civilian firearm ownership is near-negligible in terms of threats that a state actor can face, and that glorification of civilian firearm ownership as a means of 'preventing tyranny' is exactly the kind of atomized and easily-struck-down approach to dissent that right-wing governments encourage.
Put it this way - if things get bad enough that you're planning a shootout with state forces, the point where individual acquisition of an AR-15 would make the difference has long passed.
So the arms race just needs to continue!!
The private militia needs tanks! Missiles! Fighter jets!
...come to think of it, I guess Mexican drug cartels are pretty much the libertarian wet dream.
And how are those numerous steps enforced?
If you're asking how oversight is enforced, then I freely invite you to examine the past century of behavior in democratic polities which involves varying levels of participation and opposition to the state in utilizing methods most effective at the given time to maximize the impact of participation by the general population and the generation of continued enthusiasm from said population. Violence is often involved - the idea of making the state 'scared' to 'come to [an individual's] door' by civilian firearm ownership a la GOP-style no step on snek dick-waving rarely is.
If you want me to outline the totality of escalation from civic participation to civic disobedience to direct action, I'm gonna have to decline.
