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minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️link6•2 months agoThe problem there is the government already has most of the guns and are very, very willing to use them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoWhen was the last time the military used the guns against its population?
minus-square@Plastic_Ramseslink11•2 months agoEvery day, when the militarized police kill innocent people extrajudicially.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 months agoWounded Knee (the second one not the original one) was 1973. Kent State in '70. The Bonus Army (homeless WWI vets) in the 30s. Blair Mountain (coal miners on strike) and the Tulsa Race Massacre in '21. Only a half dozen times in the last 100 years or so.
The problem there is the government already has most of the guns and are very, very willing to use them.
When was the last time the military used the guns against its population?
Every day, when the militarized police kill innocent people extrajudicially.
That baby was coming right for 'em.
Wounded Knee (the second one not the original one) was 1973.
Kent State in '70. The Bonus Army (homeless WWI vets) in the 30s. Blair Mountain (coal miners on strike) and the Tulsa Race Massacre in '21.
Only a half dozen times in the last 100 years or so.
54 years, I think?