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Every American should get a gun right now just to make them afraid.
Don’t advertise on social media, just buy it.
Store it disassembled, but get some ammo. This way you can put it back together but they can’t claim you were armed if they come in with a no-knock warrant. Kinda hard if your pistol is in 17 separate bits in a locked case.
What this will do is show statistics of gun ownership go up in blue states.
I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.
Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.
The shadowy cabals the rightwing says are behind everything is classic projection again, they're controlled by shadowy cabals of rich people. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It's really impossible to overstate how bad these people are and they're winning.
The coup was successful, they're in power and if they don't want to give it up they won't.
Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.
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Yeah don't give them the pretext for what were already doing...
Would be really interesting to find out a lot of lefties in red states had guns that were off the books... Don't look at me, I lost mine in an unfortunate boating accident.
The gun lobby loves this one trick.
Black Panthers getting guns brought on some pretty fucking fast gun control laws
Now imagine every LGBT person being strapped, publicly where it’s allowed. The MAGA snowflakes would be so fucking scared
If they shoot someone raiding a house I don't know if there would be a trial at this point though. I'm not saying you should do some solo stand-your-ground thing and get yourself killed, but it doesn't seem like it would make a difference if you even owned a gun or not as far as their legal justification, even if there was a trial they could say they feared for their life. Police have shot people sleeping in bed and gotten away with it.
Police also have framed people or claimed afterward that because they owned a gun more force was required and necessary.