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Your ass is not a legitimate source to pull facts from.
Statistical averages are, however. 47% of Americans own a gun. They have on average 500-1000 bullets on hand at any one time, enough for one or two trips to their gun ranges, which totals up to 78 to 157 billion bullets.
Just because you are insulted when faced with the fact that the left is woefully unprepared for that does not make it not true. Reality does not bend to your wishes.
You can either accept the facts as I present them to you and prepare yourself, or when this whole thing blows up next year, suffer. Your choice.
As a left leaning individual with multiple firearms and plenty of ammunition for them, might want to consider there are plenty of us are part of that 47%.
Obviously a sample bias, but quite a few fellow veterans that I went to college with could put my meager collection to shame and share similar viewpoints.
That being said, your doomer outlook and gross oversimplification/assumptions are a joke. There will be no civil war, assholes will continue to be assholes, and you are still making this shit up as you type. Most of these Meal Team 6, cosplaying motherfuckers are too chickenshit to have an altercation where they aren't the only one with the scary broomstick, and 99% of the blowhards wouldn't last a day in an actual combat scenario let alone a "war".
Bigots are bigots and will constantly attempt to suppress that which doesn't align with their narrow minded worldview, however a civil war is not on the horizon.... JFC get over yourself.
I think liberal gun owners have 1. A much better grasp of the first rule of fight club, 2. Don't have a fetish about what amounts to a tool.
There's no real evidence to substantiate that claim, but a whole lot of right wingers are open about their gun ownership. Which I agree is stupid, but that's just how reality is.
Some sauce:
So clearly right wingers are twice as likely to own guns as left wingers, meaning they will likeky win a civil war when it comes down to it, and given what they want, you can't afford to continue being in denial about this. Your life is at stake here.
And you think all of that 47% are not only right-leaning, but crazy enough to use those firearms to murder people unprovoked?
I know so. I used to be a centrist who ran with them for several years, so I know their ways and habits, and how and what they think. They are just waiting for some kind of signal to start, and that signal will likely be Trump going to jail or being barred from the presidency under the Constitution upon conviction.
What moved you from a centrist to a militant leftist?
Interacting with them for a long time.
I take offense of your using "the left" to refer to the unarmed liberal masses.
That attitude is why the left will be killed by those right-wing cult scumbags.
Ok lib
Jesus Christ, you actually are offended 🤦 Look, if you care about ensuring the right wing loses, which you'll need to do to prevent fascism and genocide, you'll put aside your pride and fix the problem. You don't, and everyone suffers. It's as simple as that.
I think you're confusing us finding you insufferable with us being offended. Your weird little fantasies are cringey and boring, not offensive.
And you're really bad at hiding it, too. But the reality of my words is there whether you want to believe it or not. I can only lead you to water, you're the one who has to make the choice to drink. The only one who's gonna suffer from it is you and your family if you don't. 🤷
500-1k rounds is nothing. Most of us have usually 10-20k rounds. 500 rounds is what I burn through in a range day. Hell I've got probably 50k 22lr at this point alone. And that's just for plinking. 9mm/308/x39/556/54r/20g/12g/45 combined that's probably another 40k rounds.
Most of us buy in bulk, ammo isn't cheap, so when deals come around you buy as much as you can afford.
So I'd say your estimates are on the low end.
That just makes the situation even worse. I worry for next year.
Huh? Having ammo doesn't make anything worse. People have been stock piling it for decades now. Ammo doesn't expire if it's properly stored. I don't see how having it magically makes anything worse.
It does when it's mostly right wingers hankering for genocide doing it.
It kinda sounds like you listened to the original run of the "It Could Happen Here" podcast series a few too many times. It could happen here, but the probability of it sparking is very low, and even then the probability of that spark growing beyond anything more than localized/isolated incidents is even lower.