“Americans” have zero control over the federal judiciary, and little control over state judiciarires, which have slim to zero power to address these national problems.
That is literal bullshit because this is ENTIRE point the 2nd amendment is more important to so many Americans than, well just about anything else in the world
Americans not reacting (and worse, pretending they never had any recourse) is the reason all this shit politicians keep destroying everything… your inaction (in all forms) got you here
You seem to accept a hermeneutics of innocence towards the US and its ideology, fundamentally. When the constitution talks about the right to bear arms, in a militia, in the context of slave uprisings and settler-empire conflict, it’s actually a far sighted stroke of genius. The founding fathers knew 250 years later suburban dads would need a gun to protect their McMansion from inner city thugs. No, they weren’t coming up with extra-historical wisdom, they, like the many founding philosophers and practitioners of liberalism, were cruel slavers, atrocious exterminators, and elitists who thought they knew best. History doesn’t go away because you close your eyes and ignore it. The constitution or supposed founding values not being applied on so many occasions from lynchings to foreign occupations isn’t because “America is an ongoing project, a living document,” it’s because countries are what they do and who they represent. As opposed to pieces of paper. I have no sympathy for these viewpoints because you immediately drop the hermeneutics of suspicion on any critics of the American nightmare. If in Cuba the churches are empty, religion is being suppressed. If they’re full, people are rejecting their atheistic ideology. Funny how that turns out. American institutionalists keep crying.
Sure, but that’s MUCH closer to the stated goal I mentioned “fight of the current fascist regime” than the proposed supposed reason for its existence “to quell slave rebellions”
That is literal bullshit because this is ENTIRE point the 2nd amendment is more important to so many Americans than, well just about anything else in the world
Americans not reacting (and worse, pretending they never had any recourse) is the reason all this shit politicians keep destroying everything… your inaction (in all forms) got you here
It’s always easy to ask someone else to pull the trigger
Yes, war and self immolation are your ONLY choices
The entire point of the 2nd Amendment was to put down slave rebellions. Don’t kid yourself into thinking it had some nobler purpose.
The people with the guns would shoot the people who want to overthrow Trump
that’s not what’s written but Ok
You seem to accept a hermeneutics of innocence towards the US and its ideology, fundamentally. When the constitution talks about the right to bear arms, in a militia, in the context of slave uprisings and settler-empire conflict, it’s actually a far sighted stroke of genius. The founding fathers knew 250 years later suburban dads would need a gun to protect their McMansion from inner city thugs. No, they weren’t coming up with extra-historical wisdom, they, like the many founding philosophers and practitioners of liberalism, were cruel slavers, atrocious exterminators, and elitists who thought they knew best. History doesn’t go away because you close your eyes and ignore it. The constitution or supposed founding values not being applied on so many occasions from lynchings to foreign occupations isn’t because “America is an ongoing project, a living document,” it’s because countries are what they do and who they represent. As opposed to pieces of paper. I have no sympathy for these viewpoints because you immediately drop the hermeneutics of suspicion on any critics of the American nightmare. If in Cuba the churches are empty, religion is being suppressed. If they’re full, people are rejecting their atheistic ideology. Funny how that turns out. American institutionalists keep crying.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Vague on purpose.
Sure, but that’s MUCH closer to the stated goal I mentioned “fight of the current fascist regime” than the proposed supposed reason for its existence “to quell slave rebellions”