Inb4 muh guns good tho, find your own shower this one’s mine >:)

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    Last I checked, the state would just beat into submission people who weren’t armed advocating for their rights. I believe even Martin Luther King Jr. himself understood that you would need the threat of violence to push for moderates to change. Not that he’d do it himself, but the carrot and stick principle. Also had some very interesting words on white moderates and capitalism. I’m sure he was very popular back then https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-martin-luther-king-had-75-percent-disapproval-rating-year-he-died-180968664/

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      Last I checked people in the US have been, and currently are being, beaten into submission and so clearly having guns isn’t stopping that from happening.

      You are literally doing the "Americans will look you dead in the eyes and say “the second amendment empowers us to protect ourselves from tyranny and that’s why today America is the freest and safest country in the world” with a straight face. " thing that I just mentioned! I couldn’t script something this damning. Are you stupid??