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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 21:53:05 JST Rich Felker

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   • Ika Makimaki

   @pezmico Yeah because they're not worried about brownshirts with guns.

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     Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 21:53:06 JST Ika Makimaki

     I've never understood or liked the way American culture fetishises guns.

     I have met American gun owners, and one of the most common arguments for widespread gun ownership was that it would prevent tyranny. That the people would rise against the oppressor, and they'd be well armed, and the would-be dictator would face a formidable resistance.

     I had doubts about this argument then.

     Nowadays, it seems to me that unarmed populations have been more willing to rise and depose their corrupt leaders.