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Americans will look you dead in the eyes and say "the second amendment empowers us to protect ourselves from tyranny and that's why today America is the freest and safest country in the world" with a straight face.
My Medicare card does more to protect me than every gun in the US does to protect a single American. Then these "under no pretext" brainlets come in as if the literal poster child for capitalism wasn't built on that philosophy. Guns don't overthrow governments, organised groups do. Guns kill people.
The "overthrow government" thing aside, as an Asian American, Rooftop Koreans are what we need to protect against ourselves because I know when shit goes down, the law enforcement will not protect us. We need a well-regulated militia, fuck the police.
Last I checked, the state would just beat into submission people who weren't armed advocating for their rights. I believe even Martin Luther King Jr. himself understood that you would need the threat of violence to push for moderates to change. Not that he'd do it himself, but the carrot and stick principle. Also had some very interesting words on white moderates and capitalism. I'm sure he was very popular back then https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-he-died-180968664/
Last I checked people in the US have been, and currently are being, beaten into submission and so clearly having guns isn't stopping that from happening.
You are literally doing the "Americans will look you dead in the eyes and say "the second amendment empowers us to protect ourselves from tyranny and that's why today America is the freest and safest country in the world" with a straight face. " thing that I just mentioned! I couldn't script something this damning. Are you stupid??
Guns in civilian hands don't overthrow the government.
And neither do organised groups of civilians.
The military does, when they refuse orders to shoot on civilians and turn on the government.
Or if it's an occupying force, when the necessary military becomes more expensive than the value you can extract out of the country.
Either way, protests and strikes by the people are necessary to overthrough the government, but not sufficient.
If the government is willing to use the military against the population, and the military is willing to do so, there's not much even millions of people can do.
One might even call the military an organised group