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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is such stupid logic. "Oh people want to violently overthrow the government? I want them to easily get guns" The fascists should be the exact reason you want to have strict gun control

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't work that way when they already all have guns. If you wanted to do it your way, you'd have needed to start on that gun control about 100 years ago.

Because the cops are not going to take the fascists' guns, even if they were outlawed. They are vastly outnumbered by armed citizens, and they are scared of them, and many of the cops are the same fascists too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worked fine in Australia. Kind of the point of the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No no no, this won't work in the US because reasons...