FBI raids Mar-a-Lago
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He's a dangerous Sneaky Fucker. He may be a pussy, but many of the men at his command are not, and they will put you and everyone you know in the ground at his say-so.
Acting like I wouldn’t demolish the first person who invaded my property
It ain't the first person that's the issue. It's the APC, the snipers, and the 999 behind him make the problem.
That's definitely where the Second Amendment arguments for protecting against tyranny fall apart really quick.
I have no problem with gun ownership and permissive laws.
But being armed to the teeth as an individual only helps you become either a martyr or a terrorist who takes a few down with you when the State come for you.
I never hear any plausible Step 2 on what happens next if you miraculously survive Step 1.
It's similar to how gun ownership deters burglary. It's not necessary that every house has a gun in it. It's that potential burglars know that any given house could, and they don't know which ones do.
This is how robust adherence to 2A serves as a preventative to tyranny. It's not that Bob who's mad at his water bill can take on the entire government and win with what he's got stashed in the garage. It's that a potentially tyrannous government doesn't know what sort of force can be brought to bear against it if it oversteps.
I think this Mar-a-lago nonsense is a clumsy attempt to gauge this. They went straight for the King, but he wasn't even there. What did they get? They got no response, which gives them no information, and they got an empty, if pretty, house. It's going to make a lot of people super mad though, myself included. I view this as some asshole tracking muddy boots on my nice carpet. It's going to get accounted for.
The 2nd amendment is the nuclear option of the citizenry. If the government goes maximum ape and starts "dealing with" its political opponents, the citizenry will revolt. Yes the government has APCs, tanks, and other weapons of mass destruction....but that doesn't stop the random joe with a rifle from putting a bullet between the eyes of [insert politically related individual here].
The chaos and pandemonium that would be caused is immeasurable, and realistically speaking it wouldn't take much of the population to cause an extreme headache for the government. If an issue shows up on the homefront, that is significant enough to require recalling our forces abroad, that will have massive geopolitical ramifications, ramifications that the government really does not want to deal with. Combine this with general unrest driving productivity into the floor and pandemonium throughout, and you swiftly end up in a fall of rome scenario.