Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

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    13 hours ago

    Oh my fucking god… Every comment in this stupid thread is saying the same stupid thing. “Time to get your guns…”, "Exercise your 2nd amendment… " Yeah, that’s hilarious tough guy. Do you have a gun? No? well do you have a gun license? No? Well do you know the first thing about firearms? You do! Oh you’ve played several call of duty games… Awesome. Do you know that you’re statistically more likely to shoot a family member than a home intruder? Well I hope you don’t like them much.

    Ok, moving past the idiotic bravado… It sounds like you have no solution for people who aren’t just itching to murder other people. Say for instance, that I have no interest in shooting someone, and in fact feel that a civil society should not involve shooting anyone, especially fellow countrymen. With that in mind, for the sane perhaps 70% of Americans, do you have any useful advice besides “get a gun”?

    Finally, if your plan does work and every American arms themselves, then congratulations, we’ve fallen into civil war 2. Now what? Even if you do have guns, the government has bigger ones and they have munitions you don’t. You will always, always be outgunned by the military. Now being armed makes you a hostile combatant/terrorist agent in the eyes of the law, anything you do with it will be deemed illegal. Some good that 2nd amendment is doing you. What’s your plan now?

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      well do you have a gun license?

      Tell me you’re describing your own lack of experience with firearms without telling me you’re describing your own lack of experience with firearms.

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      As a gun owner, I agree with this. Open fire on ICE…see how that goes. You won’t win. You might kill one, but they will CERTAINLY kill your back. Isn’t it odd that in the most armed county on earth, no ICE officers have been shot in the line of duty (check me there, but I’m not familiar with one)?

      Seems like most people are focused on the gun thing here. You already said it; what civil solution do we have?

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        Community building. That’s the best thing we can do right now. Building social structures to help take care of everyone when the crumbling system will inevitably fail us. This can include making sure that vulnerable people are safe when ICE are sighted in the local area.

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        11 hours ago

        Guess I’ll defend myself, but not with a gun.

        Says 80% of the global population…

        Yeah, that’s such a weird stance. It’s just what the vast majority of people do.

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          You’re welcome to not have guns. No one is forcing you to defend yourself. You can fight ICE with your bare hands if you want.

          But maybe don’t shit on others for wanting to be pragmatic.