Would protestors be safer? Thousands of masked people with guns. Chaos?
I can’t help but think that the only solution to ICE is a “well regulated militia” in combination with political reform, with both being necessary.
There would be violence, more or less.
There would be more violence. These thugs in riot gear want an excuse to slaughter people en-mass.
At the risk of dying themselves?
bro they jumped and executed a person they don’t think about risks anymore
Legal repercussions are totally different than thousands of masked people with guns. They all know that the law is slow and easy to get around.
They think they’re beyond consequences and “it can’t happen to me, I’m the main character!”
My guess is: ICE shoots first (either because of their regular activities or trying to incite a larger riot), the protesters shoot at them, the media shows it as a national tragedy between a rebellious, anti-American group of traitors and the honorable Burger brownshirts and the prez drops the military there and in nearby areas, imposes curfews, etc etc and further restrictions on freedom that, if they trigger a larger conflict, the people would never win because they’d be fighting the American empire’s forces. If it happens, other cities would lower their heads, and America would continue its path into a slave base country. Maybe?
I do think there’d be more than a few mutinies and refusals to follow orders all across the board. Perhaps even to the level of the president trying to nationalize (for instance) the Minnesota National Guard, and their commander responding with a hearty “fuck you, eat shit”.
Most times the US military has gone up against the general population of a society, the US military has lost.
Soldiers would never be able to feel safe again, there is no safe home to return to. Even off duty, what if someone knows?
Then let’s hope that from a post civil war America something good can still grow, then. 👍
This is my big hope. That this fall is so deep that it is burned into our DNA. That a more humane species of mankind emerges from the ashes.
Have you read God Emperor of Dune? 😁
Why yes I have!
More. The larger the group, the more distributed the intelligence, and the larger the chance that someone with unmitigated mental health problems are present.
someone with unmitigated mental health problems are present.
You mean ICE ?
