MAGA’s vision of a Second Civil War dangerously misreads America’s fragmented political geography | Milwaukee Independent

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MAGA’s vision of a Second Civil War dangerously misreads America’s fragmented political geography | Milwaukee Independent - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

They often forget that plenty of left/liberal folks grew up with guns, and hunting.

Statistically not really. I’ve been part of liberal gun groups in the past and it was hard to get any traction. Many of the members were also extremely fuddy and mocked people for having “evil black rifles” rather than their preferred .38 cal revolver and 130 year old bolt action rifle.

If you go to a range and pick 10 random people to ask their politics the odds are that 9 or even all 10 will be either right of center or moderate (aka shy conservative really), the leftist gun owner is outnumbered like 25:1 by conservatives and probably 4:1 by right wing extremists.

Having a lot of guns doesn’t mean shit when you can only use one gun at a time.

If 25 people are fighting 33 people, but that 25 people have 75 guns and the 33 people have 33 guns, it’s still an equitable fight.

The stats are on number of owners, not guns owned

My point is that people horde guns.

If you have 1 person who owns 25 guns and another who owns one. They are equal. Also, during an actual war, this would literally be a moot point as the state would be arming people.

Not really. The guy with 25 guns can arm 24 friends. The state would hardly be arming people, the military would be directly involved on one side or the other. A civil war between left and right would absolutely not work out well for the left.

24 friends who don’t want to fight?

You don’t think the liberal states wouldn’t arm their on fighting groups if open civil war happened? Cmon now.

You’re making a baseless assumption that the 24 friends wouldn’t want to fight. Doesn’t open a gun yet doesn’t mean won’t join the fight. Liberal states won’t arm citizens, that’s inconsistent with their core principles. Besides that, they’d end up arming conservatives too because we’d just fake being liberal to get a free gun. Already take advantage of liberal gun buy”back” programs by forcing you idiots to buy pipeguns and shitty broken guns to fund our ammo budget 😂