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Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion
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The fun thing about America is that you can literally just walk to a shop and buy a gun today. The fact that everyone who opposes Trump hasn't done that says a lot about the real situation on the ground there.
Not true. I live in a state where we require a gun permit in order to purchase a gun. You have to that a gun safety class and fulfill other requirements. This is more a thing in blue states than in red states.
I personally don't own a gun because someone in my household has a history of suicidal ideation.
You know your situation best but if you do need to arm yourself while protecting others in your house safety equipment like gun safes and trigger locks exist. Depending on the model of gun you may even be able to partially disassemble it and hide the missing piece.
That, and the common refrain of "I can't go to the protest, I need my job" clearly indicates that freedom has a price tag for them and it's surprisingly low.
Shameful to pick survival of family over something that will make them homeless, locked up, or killed. /s
And yes, people both in the past and now in some places go that far to try and change things, or to just fight back. But those people also got put against a wall to make those choices, and unfortunately most Americans, even the ones in trouble, aren't quite at that level yet.
Says in one of the great documents that people "are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." It's human nature to deal with things than totally uproot them. This isn't an excuse against rebelling, it's just a reason why there isn't more of it.
As long as it's other people who are made homeless, locked up, and killed by your government, that's a price worth paying, eh?
I'm well aware that Americans are just regular people and are going to have all the same regular-person failings that allow authoritarians to take over as well. But Americans have spent generations bragging triumphantly about how different and better they were and how it couldn't happen there, so I don't think I'll be letting that slide quite yet.