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@TheOleHermit
Why are you asking and answering your own questions?
Are you trying to sound smart?
They are serialized because every weapon of the same type is indistinguishable from another without those numbers.
One-off weapons for personal use do not require serialization. They are not mass produced.
I have a gun that was my father's with no serial numbers. It's perfectly legal.
People need weapons to defend themselves and oppose a corrupt government. The fact that you asked that tells me you're not American or a child. England did not prohibit the possession of arms, and the framers added the Second Amendment for the citizens to oppose their own government should it become corrupt. The 2A, at its writing, allowed citizens to own the same arms as any army (ships, canons, repeating arms, muskets, swords, everything). Most of the weapons used by Americans in the Revolutionary War were privately owned. And the framers intended those weapons of war to be in the hands of citizens AND the standing military.
Do you seriously expect a corrupt government's own military to overthrow itself?
That's not logical. That's why our citizens are allowed to possess the same weapons of war.
Think what you want of militias, but that is what's keeping Ukraine out of Russian hands.
As for J6, that was a protest, not an insurrection. The protestors were not armed, and they went home on their own. No one was charged with insurrection. No one.
Hyperbole...
Where did I say anything about schools? Where did I say it is acceptable? Murder is already illegal, and yet they still do it. Guns are illegal in most of Europe, and yet mass attacks still happen.
It's not guns, it's evil people who find a way to harm innocent people. Let's protect our children like we protect anything else that's valuable.
My guns have never hurt anyone.
Nice try though...
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@kylealexander7024 I don't think you understand what will happen if you defund the police. In the end it doesn't matter, it's not going to happen anyway.
It's not a like flipping a switch and boom, the police are defunded.
Every city, county, state, and the federal government would need to agree it, and that is not going to happen. The masses want law and order (at least the feeling of it).
If your politicians take that away they dont stand a chance of getting reelected.
The police are not going away.
The police unions are not going away as long as we have politicians selling out to the special interest groups (unions) to get their votes.
So the bad cops remain.
Let's say you could get the union to let the bad cops go...
Ok, we still have the "fog of war" and mistakes will still be made unless you hamstring the police.
Police are not going to do the job if you take away their ability to defend themselves. No one would want the job because cops will be killed in droves.
To prevent the next Tamir Rice incident (I hope you're familiar with the case because if you're not this will not make any sense) police must wait to react to keep their jobs, and delay the application of deadly force. If police can't react instantly to what seems to be a deadly weapon then they die from waiting to be sure it is a real weapon when it actually is a real weapon. If they react they're fired, if they don't react they die. That's a hell of a choice.
The world sucks and I wish it didn't. Violence is the tool of criminals so police need to be able to stop it in action and that also sometimes means using deadly but justified force without being able to ask questions first.
Don't get me wrong, what happened to George Floyd should have never happened and the police officer who knelt on his neck should never be a free man, but what if we treat him (the cop) like your sister was.
Maybe he has PTSD or some other poor excuse for poor life choices.
It'll be his defense you just watch.
He'll say "I have a recognized medical condition and I couldn't stop myself."
The dregs of society...
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@TheOleHermit
So, in one breath, you're saying we don't need superior weapons to defend ourselves, then in another, you say we can't oppose the military because they have superior weapons.
It can't be both.
Tanks and airplanes need fuel, maintenance, and resupply. The pilots have families and friends, they need food, electricity, shelter, sleep, and they need to get to those weapons. It's incredibly easy to interrupt those "needs" on and off base if there are no front lines and they have no idea who the "friendlies " are.
Fighting wars is easy, preventing them is hard.
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@kylealexander7024 yes, yes, yes.
16, white, knees.
I've got it, ok.
You've said it 3 times already.
Why were you in handcuffs?
What were you doing while you were kneeling that they escalated the use of force?
Maybe you didn't do nothing.
Maybe it seemed like nothing.
Maybe you were resisting.
Why all those questions you might ask. It's a good story, especially with the current events, but you do realize that there could easily be more to the story other than the narrative that all/some cops are bad.
I don't mean all that is an insult, but you have to realize that you're just a random person on the internet and I know nothing about you.
As for the protesters...
By your own admission you said, "the majority of people", not all.
Either it's peaceful or it's not, there is no in-between.
It only takes one person to change it from a lawful demonstration to one that must be stopped. I think you probably already know this.
it might not have been you or the people you came with, it could have been someone, somewhere else, that you couldn't see, that started it and that's the momentum that started the ball rolling.
You also said "there going to get attacked back".
Ahhh, here's the rub...
That's called a riot and not a protest. At that point you have become a criminal and the majority of Americans are no longer on your side. Count me as one of them.
Burning, blocking traffic, throwing explosives, bricks, stones.
Maybe if you managed to kill one of em you might feel better?
You see, I'm biased. I was a fireman for 20 years and that kind of thing doesn't fly with me. The roads stay open, you don't set fires, and you don't injure people.
All cops are not bad, I've seen it with my own eyes. I've seen police put themselves in harm's way to help someone that they don't know. I've seen them save lives and they have saved the lives of people that I know.
People are angry and I understand that. I'm angry about what happened but I'll not be forced to do what is wrong or turn into the person that I'm angry at.
Does that sound reasonable or does that make me a bad person to you?
One of us is right here and one of us is wrong, who is it?
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