Real people get massacred every day in schools and churches because people gun owners think that they'll go Red Dawn the exact second a hypothetical tyrannical government comes to their house in Indiana, with a bunch of drones and a team of the same guys who killed Bin Laden. https://twitter.com/WeTheFew/status/1169264252466733057
In non-hypothetical examples where this interpretation of the 2nd Amendment could've protected people from a government siege, like Ruby Ridge, or Waco, the government still killed almost everybody. And that was before drones.
I understand the sentiment, or spirit, of what they are defending, but real kids are getting mowed down in schools while civilian owners of weapons of war are preparing for a war that might never come, that they could not conceivably win.
Yeah, also this. https://twitter.com/SamRoseWatson/status/1169274939356008449?s=20
Yet another reminder that, statistically, most of the guns in the United States are owned by mega-wealthy fantasists with zero training.
Honestly, if it's a buy back program, it could probably help a lot of families in other ways.
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