I’m wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I’m a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)

I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    21 hours ago

    Only if people collectiely excercise that right by forming a militia, otherwise they’ll just raid your houses individually one by one and take your guns.

    Ironically, its less likely for people who aren’t right-wing to have guns. Blue states, and especially Blue cities make it so difficult for people to get a gun due to all the permits you have to obtain from the police department, who would just find bs reasons to deny your permit because you know, pigs be pigs.

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      15 hours ago

      Lots of states allow private sales with no background checks required. People should see if they live in/near one.

      If so hop on mewe, or some other social site, grab some cash and get you one! Gun shows are awesome for this too.

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        9 hours ago

        Still can’t carry guns outside your hosue without a permit in Philadelphia. So you won’t be able to defend yourself when you go about the city and some armed nazi mob start threatening you.

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      If you have a gun and they raid your hosue, they now have a legal right to kill you no matter what you do since you are now a threat with deadly force.

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        16 hours ago

        Sure and they can just as easily shoot you no matter what and say it was a phone, you were reaching for something etc

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          16 hours ago

          Correct but would having gun lower or increase your chances at getting killed tho

          That’s the question here

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            In a house? With cops raiding it? If you grabbed a gun to defend yourself odds are you would be killed. If it comes to that particular scenario, gun or not, your odds weren’t that great to begin with