I thought you had a second amendment just for this?! If we believe the amount of Americans here telling everyone to arm themselves, and that they are ready to defend themselves if a police officer looks menacing, you'd all be ready for this.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Americans are cowards. That 2nd amendment is only good for the NRA to defend guns when idiots kill children in schools in order to send out thoughts and prayers.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The especially annoying part is that a lot of them are acting like preachers telling the rest of the world we should arm ourselves in case our governments becomes a fascist dictatorship, saying they themselves are armed and ready, in case an ICE officer comes towards them with a shock glove, and they will not hesitate to shoot. But then, nobody does it because "they don't want to give the government a reason to escalate things", "it might start a civil war", or "they are scary".

They spread their pro-gun BS worldwide, boast about their 2nd amendment, then in the next comment, another one apologizes to the rest of the world for their government turning into a fascist dictatorship. I know they're not the same person. I know there's significant nuance to apply, but they're not making it easy.

[–] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] humblearrogant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not all of us carry guns nor want to.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Cool but your country has more guns then people.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Indeed. There's obviously nuance to apply but there's so many pro-gun people from the US that sometimes it's hard to conclude anything else. I interacted with gay Americans from Florida 20 years ago and as "liberal" as they were, they were still pro-gun and telling me, a Québecois living in a small town, that I should also arm myself, in case my government became tyrannical or something. Nowadays I read the comments from Americans on different communities of Lemmy, often from LGBTQ+ communities, mostly all encouraging others to get guns, and it's hard to see Americans in any other way.

It's a good thing that you remind us about this. But surely you understand that even not armed, even if not by protests, there's other actions citizens can take to oppose their governments, and apologizing to, or virtually standing with the people your government is attacking, is not one of those.