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All of this can be true. I'm exceedingly pissed at how the vocal anti-fed 2A crowd was talking all tough, and now they're licking the heels of the feds as those agencies literally carry out all the conspiracies we were supposed to need that 2A for.
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Something like that?
Ugh. What a bunch of cowards.
Edit: I'm not even advocating violence. Where's all the peaceful open-carrying protests? That'd at least be a start towards a polite society.
Thugs in unmarked vans with masks would be a lot more hesitant to beat on civilians with 50 legally carried rifles in the vicinity. Jussayin.
Thomas Jefferson
I keep floating the idea that everyone should show up to vote while open carrying.
100%
The only way I logically see this going wrong is if some militant MAGAs show up and start trying to stoke a fight.
It'd be pretty funny though, watching FOX hosts cover such a thing. They'd start screeching, hopping, and shit-flinging while looping the same 5-second footage for a week straight if the "wrong people" were exercising those rights.
[Shaky iPhone footage of people with shouldered rifles peacefully casting ballots]
"Oh noh aw deez anteefah pwotestas wif gunz a domethik teewowisth! Pedo wapisth leedah pwz kill, dey vote rawng ;_;."
Although, forcing the NRA to get somewhere between "Mighty uncomfortable" and "Brain bleed" having to choose between licking fascist boots vs. protecting the second amendment, would be freaking hilarious. 😂
"Shall not be infringed, dickheads."
So long as the internal mental struggle holds them off until I can vote and leave.