I make this point to American's all the time. The 2nd amendment is just like the rest of them, it's a fucking piece of paper.
In order for a firearm to protect you, you have to brandish it, that is threaten to kill someone, or actually kill someone.
It doesn't matter that Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty. The process is the punishment. His life that he had before is over, he was lucky in that he has some credit and capital to use as a result of it.
The 2nd amendment is merely a static defensive structure in a strategic culture war. You think that "try that in a small town" is somehow a win without realising "a small town" is all you have left.
"Try that in your nations capital, or anywhere in America" is what the song should be.
You have your guns but you're losing everything else.
The worst part of the 2nd amendment is that it deludes American's into thinking that there somehow doing better than the rest of the Western World.
Just to clarify it's overwhelmingly a good thing, I wish it was everywhere in the western world, but it's not a magic totem that wards off evil in itself.
I make this point to American's all the time. The 2nd amendment is just like the rest of them, it's a fucking piece of paper.
In order for a firearm to protect you, you have to brandish it, that is threaten to kill someone, or actually kill someone.
It doesn't matter that Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty. The process is the punishment. His life that he had before is over, he was lucky in that he has some credit and capital to use as a result of it. The 2nd amendment is merely a static defensive structure in a strategic culture war. You think that "try that in a small town" is somehow a win without realising "a small town" is all you have left. "Try that in your nations capital, or anywhere in America" is what the song should be.
You have your guns but you're losing everything else.
The worst part of the 2nd amendment is that it deludes American's into thinking that there somehow doing better than the rest of the Western World.
Just to clarify it's overwhelmingly a good thing, I wish it was everywhere in the western world, but it's not a magic totem that wards off evil in itself.