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FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Afraid the NRA will start pushing back seriously if (when?) they gun down another legally armed non-violent protester?
As a European, I’d never imagined to come to see the NRA as a potential force for good.
It's a weird moment in time.
Now would be the right time for all protesters to start carrying. Like the Mulford Act, nothing gets 2a supporters more concerned, than when people they don't like, start doing the things they believe they themselves have every right to do.
This situation is literally what the second amendment is for. When Americans were asserting their right to buy and own fully automatic assault rifles and the NRA would defend them, the second amendment is why. The amendment exists because the citizens of the time believed they would need guns to eventually defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
Now they have a tyrannical government. I'm not convinced guns are actually what they need, but this is precisely what the second amendment is for and it's not really a surprise to find the NRA is still in support of it.
In my opinion, the problem is not with the second amendment itself, or the NRA's unflinching support for it, at least in theory. The problem is, in practice, 90% of the people who are the most heavily armed Americans with the biggest arsenals under the second amendment are the ones who openly support the government tyranny: racists, bigots, and fascists who want their white-ethno-state. So not only are the genuine "second amendment" defenders against tyranny, like presumably Alex Pretti, going to find themselves outgunned by a heavily militarized police force and government, they're also going to be outgunned by their heavily militarized angry white neighbors.
They built a society based on a foundational tolerance of gun ownership, and then they were tolerant of all the wrong people, the most intolerant people, getting lots of guns, while the tolerant people said "we don't need guns, because we live in a tolerant and just society and the second amendment is outdated". Meanwhile, their intolerant neighbors were steadily building an arsenal for the civil war that they were planning on starting. And now it's starting. The second amendment isn't going to be the panacea that the founders thought it would. It's been working against them and contributing to the problem. And that's why reasonable people have been against the NRA and the second amendment for years (and probably still should be, although it's probably way too late to change anything significant now), because we could see where this was headed. Everyone you don't want to have guns, were getting lots of guns. And everyone you do want to have guns, doesn't have nearly enough guns to matter. Yeah, it was everyone's "right" to own a gun, but most people didn't take advantage of that right, while the people you didn't want to abused the hell out of it. It's not solving any problem, it's making it worse.
Generally agree. Didn’t mean to imply that the NRA was or is « good » at this point.
Just hoping that they might lash out against the Trump admin at one point, which does not seem completely impossible now that they’ve called out their narrative on Pretti’s murder.
I feel that they’re exactly the sort of actor that could make a difference by convincing some of the gun-wielding conservatives to at least stay on the sidelines, and maybe help the army make the right choices if they ever get properly involved.
I realize it’s a rather optimistic take. The situation is very bleak.
I’m intrigued by the fact that you feel that civil war is inevitable yet feel Americans wouldn’t need guns.
This is an onion article, in case you missed that.
This is not an article on The Onion. The evidence for this is that it is very clearly labelled The Beaverton.
This is a Beaverton article.
The onion is not just an outlet, but a category of outlets.
Just like any vacuum is a hoover.
Totally missed it yes. Thanks for pointing it out.
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