The law, passed by the Democratic majority in the Colorado legislature this year, was challenged by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a hard-line gun rights group in the state
I mean if someone gets to the US mainland through the US Navy, past the US Coast Guard, through the shield of the US Air Force, onto solid ground past the US Marine Corps, through the layered defenses of the US Army backed by the US National Guard, and then takes out the many layers of US law enforcement like police, sheriffs and US Marshals….then I have to imagine Billy Bob with a rifle ain’t doing shit.
I’d put more faith in Billy Bob than I would in the police. The police don’t like fights where they don’t have a massive advantage, and they definitely don’t like losing odds. Look at the Uvald shootings as an example. They still had overwhelming numbers there, but didn’t like the odds.
Yeah, it was really intended before we had those things, and still had to worry about the British. And also the natives. Neither presents much of a threat these days, so we should probably circle back on that whole militia thing and see if it’s still needed. I think it’s just a cost center at this point that frankly we could do without and pick up our performance on life expectancy and crime rates.
It wasn’t just to protect the United States against the British and the natives, it was also to protect the people against their own government should it become oppressive. There’s a strong argument that the government has become way too powerful for armed citizens to represent any type of check or balance, but that’s irrelevant for the original intent.
It really wasn’t, as shown by the Whiskey Rebellion. That’s the popular talking point, but it was bullshit then and it’s orders of magnitude more bullshit now.
Even the vaunted successes of the Black Panthers arming up ended up in the destruction of the Panthers via intimidation, arrest, and assassination. Then you have the Davidians and Ruby Ridge.
They want you to have guns, because it makes you feel like you don’t have to do anything. If anything, it makes you more anti-government and paranoid against both the government they’re trying to dismantle and the neighbors they want you to not trust.
I mean if someone gets to the US mainland through the US Navy, past the US Coast Guard, through the shield of the US Air Force, onto solid ground past the US Marine Corps, through the layered defenses of the US Army backed by the US National Guard, and then takes out the many layers of US law enforcement like police, sheriffs and US Marshals….then I have to imagine Billy Bob with a rifle ain’t doing shit.
Especially not with Billy Bob’s current state of cardiovascular health and general fitness and mobility over a
milequarter mile.Yeah, it’s not like people have been driving off first world occupations with rusty AK-47s since Vietnam or anything like that…
I’d put more faith in Billy Bob than I would in the police. The police don’t like fights where they don’t have a massive advantage, and they definitely don’t like losing odds. Look at the Uvald shootings as an example. They still had overwhelming numbers there, but didn’t like the odds.
Yeah, it was really intended before we had those things, and still had to worry about the British. And also the natives. Neither presents much of a threat these days, so we should probably circle back on that whole militia thing and see if it’s still needed. I think it’s just a cost center at this point that frankly we could do without and pick up our performance on life expectancy and crime rates.
It wasn’t just to protect the United States against the British and the natives, it was also to protect the people against their own government should it become oppressive. There’s a strong argument that the government has become way too powerful for armed citizens to represent any type of check or balance, but that’s irrelevant for the original intent.
It really wasn’t, as shown by the Whiskey Rebellion. That’s the popular talking point, but it was bullshit then and it’s orders of magnitude more bullshit now.
Even the vaunted successes of the Black Panthers arming up ended up in the destruction of the Panthers via intimidation, arrest, and assassination. Then you have the Davidians and Ruby Ridge.
They want you to have guns, because it makes you feel like you don’t have to do anything. If anything, it makes you more anti-government and paranoid against both the government they’re trying to dismantle and the neighbors they want you to not trust.