Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "American Carnage at Lafayette Square" video.
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I'm sorry, my legal friend, but I really don't think first ammendment beats the second. The way I see it, second protects the first, but that is their only relation. I appreciate the difficulty of the choice of taking or not taking the guns out yet, however, at the same time I ask myself, "if not now, when, after all we've seen so far?". "Where is the line, which must not be crossed?". I am very much worried, that days of Gandhi a forever past and that no civilised means will suffice in the current crisis, for the opposition has become hardened, nonresponsive, perhaps even ignorant of the facts. Which is worse, even on our side, there are such people in great numbers.
So, answer yourself this question, how far would this have to go for you to draw? I am very much worried, that in this case, with this person, a lot of people would to their horror discover they are way past this treshold. Would you act like this, if he ordered the army? would you take up arms when tanks will be rolling through DC, or would you take up arms only when the Air Force started bombing the Supreme court? While one certainly shouldn't act prematurely with this kind of action, acting too late will achieve nothing too. At that point, you went to bed in a free society and woke up in a totalitarian dictatorship. A line has to be drawn after which you step on to the next box and it must not move no matter what. If that box is to be of ammo... then there is no other way around. Words will only get you so far. When the other side can shut you up permanently, be it through non-lethal means, your words are useless. It is grim, but it is the truth none the less.
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