This will be obviously all in the name of authoritarianism. Will the Russian Federation people benefit or will this be a means to control information? Note that my criticisms leveled against Russia could apply to Amurica as well. We Amuricans seem to have wet dreams of Christo-Fascism.

Good thing everyone can have guns. /s

That way we can simply do nothing because only one political party is encouraging its constituents to arm up while the other wants everyone to disarm. Guess which side will win?

I'm genuinely uncertain what your actual position is here, but yes, liberals and leftists do need to arm up. /m/LiberalGunOwners seems relevant here.

I don’t know what their position is either, but “arming up” isn’t going to do anything against a modern, relatively competent military. Back in the time the second amendment was written (as an example) there wasn’t that big a disparity in the resources the military could use and normal people. The citizens were less organized but had numbers on their side.

Today, there is absolutely nothing you can do with a gun vs drones, bombs, planes, etc. The only way you really prevail is if the government isn’t willing to slaughter its own citizens and guns aren’t helping there at all. In fact, the opposite may be true since it makes it easy for the government to label the people shooting at their officials as terrorists.

So, all of this is wrong, but also beside the point. The main point of arming up is so that we don't all get murdered by fascists. I don't mean that in the sense that fascists will take over the government, and then use the state apparatus to exterminate us. The murdering happens before and during their seizure of political power.

You’re more likely to kill yourself or a loved one than a home invader.

theguardian.com/…/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-k…

Researchers find ‘zero evidence of any kind of protective effects’, with women at particular risk

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Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found.

www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/…/guns-suicide/

While gun-suicide rates are higher in rural states, which have proportionally more gun owners, the gun-suicide link plays out in urban areas, too. “In the early 1990s, the dramatic rise in young black male suicides was in lock step with the homicide epidemic of those years,” says HSPH’s Deborah Azrael, associate director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. “Young black male suicide rates approached those of young white males—though black suicide rates had always been much lower than white suicide rates. It was entirely attributable to an increase in suicide by firearms.” Put simply, the fatal link applies across the board. “It’s true of men, it’s true of women, it’s true of kids. It’s true of blacks, it’s true of whites,” says Azrael. “Cut it however you want: In places where exposure to guns is higher, more people die of suicide.”