• Denjin@lemmings.world
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    6 小时前

    Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about so loudly when someone suggests not letting a mentally ill child own an assault rifle?

    Isn’t this exactly the government tyranny that argument is used to defend against?

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      Where’s the well regulated militia you Americans scream about

      So, one could argue that the well regulated militia in question is constituted by the National Guard, as they nominally are the armed forces of individual States, and can be nationalized under certain circumstances.

      Except for the fact that Trump just nationalized the California National Guard when he’s nominally not supposed to…

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        The way the legal system in the US works is just incredible. There are things that are very much illegal, but if the president does them apparently everyone is just fine with it.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      They’re too busy gargling republican boot to bother rising up against the tyranny they’ve cried about for decades.

      To a unnerving amount of people’s surprise, they only cared about the power of the state when they thought it was being used improperly (having a tolerant democracy), and are more than happy to see it used the way they want (hurting brown people)

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        It’ll come for them at the finish. These brown shirts should pick up a history book. The people who helped the Nazis rise to power did not live to get to enjoy it.

    • BigDiction@lemmy.world
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      Do you actually want an answer? I think you know the details aren’t suitable for a public forum.

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      The thing that I don’t get about those people is, what do they think the “well regulated” part means?