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Unless you're in a militia, owning an AR-15 is just LARPing (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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This is referring to all the people who say I own this gun to protect against a tyrannical government. While I agree fighting a tyrannical government is noble Most of those people aren't serious about it and are just LARPing. If you are serious about fighting for your freedom then you'd know that fighting alone will get you nowhere. No revolution or civil war has ever been won by scattered armed individuals with no organization, you need to join a group to be effective.

But all the militias are full of right wing psychos

Yeah, but you won't be able to change their mind from the outside. Join one and try to educate them on true freedom from the billionaire capitalist class. Worst case scenario even if they don't respond you'll still be training and learning how to work in a group, and you can be a spy and learn their tactics and how to defeat them in the case of a civil war.

I'll just buy the gun now and join a group once shit starts going down

That's the wrong order, get organized and then buy weapons. Left wing organizations will be banned and forced underground long before guns are. There's a very high probability trump will ban armed left wing groups in the next couple years, him restricting gun purchases is far less likely. It's best to get in an organization and build trust before it goes underground because after they are banned they are rightfully more picky on who they let in for fear of informants.

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[–] SpawnStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Sure, let’s look at a more recent example. In 2019 Hong Kong began protesting the CCP. The world watched and threw some support towards the protesters. If it weren’t for the 2020 pandemic that support could have changed into economic sanctions, bad global politics and loss of influence for China.

Those protests were mostly peaceful.

Imagine if they had been massively violent against the CCP military. The world would not have given two shits if the CCP stomped them harder.

Some might consider what Hong Kong was doing as “doing nothing”. Their politicians said a lot of words. And personally, I see a lot of parallels between the current CCP leadership and other dictatorships. So I think the comparison to the current US direction and action is pretty close.

Looks like this all started with “where is the line in the sand” where violence is the only option. I don’t have a concrete answer for that. Violent revolutions don’t tend to happen in developed countries with reasonable economic conditions. Despite high prices, the US is still a developed country with reasonable economic conditions. If we look at the Irish wars of the 90s it looks a lot like gorilla warfare with a lot of collateral damage. Also they didn’t get a lot of outside support, and not much changed.

So, do you want to play the long game or the short one? That determines the line in the sand. And, it is going to be different for everyone. Doubt anyone on the internet can give you a good answer on that, and if they try I’d be super skeptical.