if you count urban terrorism, we have Atleast three groups. All of them communist or communist in name.
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I'm responding to groups self identifying as a militia, and that claim to exist as a check against tryanny. For what is worth
โNot all tyranny is badโ
-maga dumbshits
Oh they only care about tyranny that affects them. It's not tyranny if it's hurting the people they want hurt.
We were assured that the guns were there for protection and the many thousand child-sized coffins were just the cost of freedom; A trade-off because tyrants were lurking right outside the door.
Now a tyrant has taken over with barely any resistance and it seems that all those children died for nothing.
Shameful.
Maybe we just didn't let enough children die... ๐ค
Oh, honey...
Government tyranny? Militias are (in the parlance of our times) here for it.
They'll fight against Border Patrol, and even plot to kill them sometimes, but only when they think they aren't doing enough.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48029360
https://time.com/6141322/border-vigilantes-militias-us-mexico-immigrants/
https://www.wired.com/story/border-militias-immigrants-trump/
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/07/border-el-paso-fbi-investigation/
Have been for a while. Probably for ever. True of probably any country.
I really wonder how it would work in a country that big in empty spaces and populations with so much authoritarian actors.
Each county has a well armed police force. Nearly each state has an armed force millitia. The country has a national guard. It also has several armed agencies. It has the three biggest armies on earth if you separate each corp and only count active soldiers. It has so much millitary equipment the overflow gets sold to polices.
Those armed millitia are all in different counties, are smaller than the local police forces, with less weapon and next to no organizational know how... They would never be able to have any other impact than get outgunned in a remote place by cops or the national guard...
Unless they all start to cause chaos at the same time, which would maybe lead to a semi destabilization of some part of the USA, I don't see these people with guns achieve anything.
Also most people who wants guns are scared/anxious persons and will talk loud about using them but won't act when it's time, because their real motivation is hiding a percived weaknesses with a weapon.
That's why in all the years of abuse by the insurance system in America, there was only one Luidgi.