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The Cherokee were disarmed just prior to the Trail of Tears. They had to surrender their weapons as invaders broke into their homes, destroyed their crops, and split families apart. They were then reliant on the federal government's soldiers, who rounded them up into camps until they were marched to what was to be only their land forever, Indian Territory. Now Oklahoma. Where we still fight the state and governor Stitt for our treaty rights.
There are still Cherokee in North Carolina because one man, Tsali (pronounced like Charlie), fought back when his wife was being stabbed by a soldiers bayonet and killed him. He then led survivors to the mountains for a hard couple of years of starvation until the government relented. They worked with Yonaguska, a chief, to reach a diplomatic solution to allow the refugees to stay in their homelands. If they executed Tsali and all of his children so no one else would rise up.
They killed him and his son for trying to defend his home and family. They killed many others in the camps and the trail itself. Many children were stolen and enslaved. But the Cherokee wanted a reasonable, diplomatic solution that didn't involve violence when the US government absolutely wanted all of those things.
I'll keep my guns.
You do that, and let me know when you actually do something useful with them
I think I will be dead by that point. Not sure if you read my previous comment or not.
Probably should have organized into a militia then
Your comments so far have been dumb and useless and naive. I'll pass.
The idea is we don't want to ever have to use them, but having them guarantees that any paramilitary leader or fascist movement knows that forceful removal of dissidents will mean a door-to-door meat grinder, and that is a VERY strong deterrent. Read history.
I mean, unless you think you won't be considered a dissident... not like they're not ALREADY making databases of people critical of the administration.
I hope to keep my guns locked away forever. I WANT them to be useless.
In the meantime, figure out what your plan is if this whole shitshow continues to go south, or if you think they'll say you're "one of the good ones" and let you go for some reason.