You'd have a stronger case if Americans were opening fire on people in the government or military that were violating their rights instead of schoolchildren, the LGBT community, and minorities.
Individual gun rights are just a culture war topic. It’s collective gun rights for workers as a class that could actually make a difference.
In the context of the parent comment? No idea.
Of course, it's unlikely the capitalist ruling class would willingly allow legalising such practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
[Note: MOVE had more than a few criminal members; I'm making no claim about the righteousness of their actions before or during the standoff]
It's not quite the story of the little guy standing up for what's right against a tyrannical government though, just suggests that in some parts of the US if you show up with enough guns and outnumber someone you can intimidate them and get away with it.
[0] - no that is not a typo, his name is "Cliven"
> On January 8, 2018, Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial and dismissed the charges because the federal government had withheld potentially exculpatory evidence
"We need guns to protect us from authoritarianism" has always been a fucking lie. No gun owners protested and started a rebellion after the patriot act.
The few times gun owners HAVE "rebelled" it has been for incredibly stupid reasons like "I don't want to pay taxes for the land my cattle have grazed on"
An aberration. Great Britain was a little fuckin busy during that period, what with the existential threat of the hundred years war, and a largely inept King.
Great Britain sent only about 50k troops during the entire affair.
Had they not been so busy, it likely would have looked a lot more like all the times India tried to get uppity.
In the last few decades, a rag-tag group of goat herders and farmers managed to kick out multiple empires using only basic fighting equipment. This is all despite having air supremacy, satellite imagery, night vision, tanks, body armor, and a 10:1 ratio of troops.
The overwhelming majority of experienced combat veterans have been out of the US military for almost a decade. You can see this reflected it in how ineffective the current organization is.
If tyranny does strike the US again, I wouldn't want to be on the side of the tyrants.
40K Americans and lots of assistance from the French, including their navy.
The American war for independence was a proxy war between empires in which the colonies were pawns, and if not for one of those empires the American insurgency would have been crushed, regardless of whatever the myth of American exceptionalism has probably taught you.
You are, obviously, free to have any opinion you like. But my existence is not a rhetorical device for you to exploit while trying to take away my rights.
I am trying to disabuse people of the idea that the right-wing "2A warrior" actually gives a fuck about anyone's rights. We should have seen them all out in protest for what happened to Daniel Shaver, where were they?
Merely owning guns isn't going to stop the government from infringing rights, we need collective action that is not being taken by the people who claim they need guns to defend their rights. Meanwhile children are being murdered in numbers. So we get the worst of both sides of the argument.
"By creating a world in which anyone CAN own a gun, we've forced ourselves to live in a world in which everyone MUST carry a gun?"