Oh, certainly. And the military has much better weapons (and training) than most 2A advocates.

My personal thoughts are that if even 5% of the population of large cities stood up and (even unarmed) said “no, you’re not going to destroy the country” that would have a significant impact.

(for residents in the DC metro area, that would be over 300,000 people, which you’ve exceeded in past protests - across the country if you could hit the 5% (17 million) protest target, you would certainly have a significant impact)

I know there’s a 50501 movement. I don’t know the size of it, (long way to go) but I think they’re still gaining momentum.

Long story short though, I really feel like this isn’t something that can be fixed by legislation or voting. That can help later, and can help support outside movements, but the people need to act, not just the politicians.

I believe the other user was trying to avoid explicitly stating that Americans need to use the powers given them by the second amendment to directly take back their country, without engaging in the existing (apparently ineffectual) political processes.

Apparently I’m avoiding saying it directly too, perhaps I don’t want to be directly encouraging anything.

Anyways, their intent seemed very obvious to me from their first comment (so I can see where their frustration came from), but I’m not educated enough in the US political system to be distracted by the details of 2/3rds majorities etc.

Nah, the problem is the fascists.

The democrats are in a tough position. If they did come out hard against the actions of the IDF then the Trump campaign would pounce on that.

Israel has positioned itself so strongly in people’s minds as the-same-as-Jewish that large sections of the democratic base would be uncomfortable voting for “the anti-israel party”.

(not to mention all the actual Jew-hating groups out there who would 100% take the opportunity to do horiffic hate crimes and claim they were just supporting the Dems)

Ugh, politics sucks.

Keep working on harm reduction, y’all, in any way you have energy for ❤️

I’m not a US citizen, but I know people who are, and they’re mostly just pissed and fed up with democrats funding fascism and genocide.

I know, it’s the US, this shouldn’t be surprising, the opposite would be more surprising, but in this particular case it hits their family.

It’s like: option 1, your family is murdered, but no one in this country is affected by it, so no one cares (they sure haven’t cared much for the past 70-whatever years) Option 2, your family is still murdered, but maybe rise of overt fascism in this country will compel people to take action?

Anyways, I’ve obviously spent a lot of energy trying to understand their perspective (I’m not going to change anyone’s mind), so I’m just sharing.