• Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Citizens with guns are good for defending against regular criminals but if Trump gets the military we can’t fight against them.

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      1 year ago

      The same military that got run out of Afghanistan and Vietnam?

      Sure, that might have been due to “public pressure” or “politics” but I think bombing Chicago or rolling tanks down the highway in Dallas will be pretty unpopular, politically.

      Add to that the fact that there are a lot of very talented people who would suddenly have a very direct and morally unambiguous target. Did the FBI ever catch the dumb asshole who shot up the substation in NC a year or so back?

      It wouldn’t be a decisive win for either side. And who knows how many people in the military would defect, quit, or refuse to fight.

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      1 year ago

      We really don’t know what would happen in the scenario.

      You’re going to be hard pressed if you think most soldiers are going to be a-okay with dropping agent orange in their own hometown.