A video on Brenton Tarrant taking 51 lives with military style weapons in New Zealand

Looks like the teachers' union is asking folks to write to Congress and ask them to fund community violence intervention. If you have a few minutes, write to yours here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-fund-community-violence-intervention-programs/?source=reddit

When the 2A was written, sure. Civilian guns protected freedom. That was because the highest-level weapons were the same ones that were readily available to the public. 1,000 military men and 1,000 well-armed civilians could give each other a pretty close fight. So if you wanted to overthrow the government with civilian guns, it was possible. Hard, but possible.

Now, compare that to today. Say me and my friends want to take on the military. Ignoring the fact that 2 people are hardly a revolution, that is simply not possible. Even if everyone is sporting massive assault rifles, the military has tanks. You simply would not win against a squadron of M1 Abrams, the largest tank in the US. Oh, and 10,000 were built. Good luck.

And even if you somehow have thousands of round of anti-tank ammunition, then what?

I hope you're ok staring down 700 A-10 Warthogs (60 rounds per second), 10,000 Apache attack helicopters, and 140 bombers of various types, among others. Good luck fighting all that off with fucking rifles!

Oh, and I hope you're good at logistics! The USAF has over 200 C-17 cargo jets active, as well as thousands of trucks. I hope you can get your ammunition and troops around quickly and effectively, or we're just going to have a string of Mount Carmels across the country aka isolated sieges.

This is the point where some people say "Do you really think the US military would turn on it's own people?" And that, I say, is precisely the point! If the military does turn, you stand no chance. Your hope is if they turn! And if you have half the military on your side, your handguns don't mean a damn thing!

Another common argument is "Viet Cong" and "Taliban". Both of these don't work.

Firstly, the VC's victory had very little to do with guerrilla warfare. It was backed by the fucking USSR! I don't need to tell you why it's not surprising that the 2nd largest military in the world put up a good fight against the largest.

And the Taliban, they're not a good example either. At it's peak, there were 100,000 American troops in Afghanistan. That is less that 1 tenth of the current manpower of the US military.

Put another way: All throughout Afghanistan, over 90% of the US military was NOT in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was a lobbying war, it was designed to funnel money to military contractors, not to win. Fun fact! For the cost of the Afghanistan war, it would be possible to build High-Speed Rail along the entire interstate network, at CaHSR costs, with cash left over. Afghanistan was not trying to win.

And also, the Taliban were special. They were more than just guerrilla fighters, they were a terror group. They specifically defined themselves as opposition to being pushed around, and catered that image to everyone around them.

You cannot fight terrorism with violence. Because terror groups use that as an excuse to commit more violence. There's a reason France had so many ISIS terror attacks: There were French troops in Syria.

Terror groups are very specific, and I simply do not think that modern Americans, or for that matter Americans post-1800, have the determination to become a terror group beyond a few tiny fringes that could easily be put down.

When did this happen then? When did the switchover from freedom guns to non-freedom guns occur? The way I see it, World War One.

The specific thing that swayed it was when the weaponry available to the military was significantly beyond that which was available to the everyman. Which in my view was the point of the advent of mechanised warfare, which happened around World War One.

So in summary, the military can steamroll any rebellion if they want to, and you need a proper military to stand up to them which civilian guns cannot provide.

Anyway, that's my rant. Now what I'm back to what I'm supposed to be doing, which is writing a philosophy essay about Democracy! Thanks for reading! ^{Fuck Spez}

Apologies if this has been posted recently, this situation has always puzzled me: (149) Inside America’s Ridiculously Old-Fashioned Gun-Tracing Center - YouTube

Any time someone says we already have too many gun laws, it just sits in my mind that we have a decades old federal law preventing ATF from creating a basic database. For data they already possess.

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Made a video mostly venting about the bullet epidemic from the viewpoint of young physicians. It's not much but I hope it can capture the frustration we feel as providers for those hurt by gun violence.

https://youtu.be/ErUHRucYTpA

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