Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?

Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2A is supposed to facilitate millitias in case England attacks again.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2in case England attacks again.

    I have been thinking about coming over there with a cricket bat.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And the benefit is most yanks won’t even be able to make a cheeky single if you flat it past the square leg

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      • Whateley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is the most English comment I have ever read.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Guns can have multiple uses.

    The American Revolutionary War literally started over the attempted seizure of guns by a government that feared its subjects could use them in an uprising.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2A is for attacking minorities, maintaining jim crowe, etc. Grow up.

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  • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you’ve got it backwards. gun control from the beginning has been about racists keeping guns out of the hands of uppity blacks.

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The 2A was so that the Federal gov’t wouldn’t have a standing army. That went out the window really quickly when a Federal force under the first president had to be raised to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. At the time, the 2A should have been repealed or rephrased at least. Don’t forget that one of the jobs of the US gov’t, as defined in The Constitution (which admittedly, doesn’t mean much now when we have a president who is clearly does not qualify under the 14th Amendment), is to put down domestic violence.

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