I’m all for the theory of the 2A being there to dissuade tyranny. But I was middle school aged when I realized that stopped making sense sometime between 1910 and 1945.
This government will bomb citizens, given the chance (it wouldn’t even be the 1st or 2nd time they’ve done it). A shotgun won’t help with that in self defense. Nor would it help with the tanks, the jets, the drones, the special ops, the automatic guns, the chemical agents, or any number of classified weapons that would roll over the next most powerful militaries if that’s what they wanted to do.
I’m not saying don’t get a shotgun. I’m saying, if you really want to prepare to have to exercise your 2A rights, you probably need to be getting something that actually poses a threat to those in power. It probably won’t even be gun shaped, but it will be arms in conflict.
ICE is basically the one way you can actually use guns to defend yourself from the government, because they’re incompetent bullies who will probably just go away if an entire neighbourhood shows up with guns
now, they might come back with the tanks and whatnot, but it’s certainly better than ICE shooting your neighbour right away.
I’m all for the theory of the 2A being there to dissuade tyranny. But I was middle school aged when I realized that stopped making sense sometime between 1910 and 1945.
This government will bomb citizens, given the chance (it wouldn’t even be the 1st or 2nd time they’ve done it). A shotgun won’t help with that in self defense. Nor would it help with the tanks, the jets, the drones, the special ops, the automatic guns, the chemical agents, or any number of classified weapons that would roll over the next most powerful militaries if that’s what they wanted to do.
I’m not saying don’t get a shotgun. I’m saying, if you really want to prepare to have to exercise your 2A rights, you probably need to be getting something that actually poses a threat to those in power. It probably won’t even be gun shaped, but it will be arms in conflict.
ICE is basically the one way you can actually use guns to defend yourself from the government, because they’re incompetent bullies who will probably just go away if an entire neighbourhood shows up with guns
now, they might come back with the tanks and whatnot, but it’s certainly better than ICE shooting your neighbour right away.