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Randahl Fink Feb 9, 2025

All my life I have been listening to the excuse, that the US had to be flooded with weapons, because if a dictator ever came to power, these weapons were the guarantee that the people could defend the US against the dictator.

They did not.

They voted for him.

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Jürgen Hubert Feb 9, 2025

@randahl Weren't all those weapons originally intended to put down slave rebellions?

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Martin Vermeer FCD

@juergen_hubert @randahl Yep. Those 'well-regulated militia' were slave patrols. It's very openly described in contemporary documents. You know, the kind that could be explored in an educational setting...