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wymike wymike@verified-nostr.com 5 months ago

I posted some questions a few days ago in another thread about guns / gun violence. They didn’t get any responses but I’m still curious to hear the pro gun responses. For context I’m not completely anti gun but I do think Americas attitude towards them is flawed. I had other questions but here I’ll stick to just one. Pro gun advocates: “Gun are needed to protect against government tyranny” BUT apparently no one was armed when the capital building was stormed; Nepalese gen z just ousted their government without needing everyone to be armed. To me these seem like clear cut cases where the protecting against government tyranny simply does not stand up. Why am I wrong?

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CensorThis thisistheend@nostriches.net 5 months ago

Yeah, the “storming of the capital” wasn’t a government overthrow. Look at Australia throwing people into covid camps, couldn’t happen in America. Look at people being rounded up for speech in the UK; I guarantee any mass attempt to do this in the states would be met with dead cops. On and on and on. A well armed populace ensures a more polite government.

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Jason High 5 months ago

Those people who “stormed the capitol” were there to make their voices heard, not overthrow the government. It was a protest that got out of hand due to bad actors (FBI assets) in the crowd.