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Man, you have way more confidence in the military not being full of MAGA idiots than I do.
As someone constantly surrounded by people in the military - they're almost all MAGA idiots, and the ones who aren't are fence sitting "libertarians" who go right wing every time.
Curious are you surrounded by Marines? Because all the other branches poll about 30 approve /70 disapprove on Trump specifically. And the military has told him he can't order this stuff before.
Army and Navy mostly
That's weird then because Army and Navy really aren't the pro-trump branches. Marines are on top for some reason, probably because they're already kind of a cult. Then Air Force who pushes Christian Evangelism in the ranks. Then Army and lastly the Navy. The Army specifically hates trump for his actions as president. When he stole school funding from their kids and denied people were getting injured by Iranian rockets. To be clear this doesn't mean the branches don't still lean conservative. But if trump ordered them to go against all of their trained ethics they'd tell him to pound sand.
Only one person matters and his name is Scott Q. Brown, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A person who can and will be replaced.
That's actually how it will go for pretty much everyone down the chain of command. Obey Trump or be replaced by those who will, except the traitorous fucks are already drawing up lists of people they know will obey, and by extension, those they know will not.
Look into Schedule F of project 2025. It's a plan to replace the entire government with loyalists. And that includes the commanders of the military.
That will take years though. And even once it's done the majority of the military will be ill trained and ill equipped.
What about military leadership, though?
And this is why I am dumbfounded that the majority of the left is anti-2a...the people who are gun owners unfortunately vote red, because they're single issue voters or Republicans. All the dems would need to do to completely destroy the GOP would be drop the anti2a rhetoric and they'd sweep every election until the GOP died and another party came to compete.
They aren't anti 2a. They're anti extremist interpretation.
If they had the ability to repeal the 2nd, they would. The end goal is alway complete removal. Let's stop acting like its not.
They say with zero evidence.
It's almost like having guns freely and widely accessible with few restrictions leads to a lot of death and injury, and the group with higher empathy has a problem with that.
Yes because other places without firearms, have no crime at all...
No gun crime, that can be said quite easily. Or at least the numbers of shootings are small enough that they make international news when they happen.
And also, the cops in those countries tend not to shoot people or pets. Like ever. Cases where an officer is forced to discharge their weapon are also international news stories.
But here in the states, we wouldn't know any of that, because here there are two or three mass shootings per day.
Just let that dichotomy sink in a bit.
These countries also have safety nets and generally give a shit about their citizens. The usa doesn't have any of that.
We need to end qualified immunity here big time. Also something other countries(western) don't have. 1 in 38ish deaths via firearms are from police. That's including suicides which account for 66% of all gun deaths in the usa.
No there is not. This is the issue with data from the anti2a crowd, it's like talking to the anti-abortion groups...made up and fully exaggerated shit.
I have never once heard an elected democratic politician (or serious candidate) speak against the 2nd amendment or even allude to repealing it. The only conversation I have personally seen/heard surrounding "gun control" is all about background checks/red flag laws which are supported by the majority of democratic and republican voters in every poll I've seen. All of the so-called "anti2a" rhetoric comes from the right in the form of fear mongering. That is to say (with no intention of being condescending), maybe stop listening to what right wing news outlets and politicians say Democrat's are saying and just listen to what democrats are actually saying.. You might be surprised at how sensible their ideas actually are on this issue.
You're.... you're kidding right? The fuck are you talking about...
There's literally an entire subreddit that documents every time a ban or confiscation comes up.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NOWTTYG/
You must be completely ignoring everything said on the Democrats side.
Uhh no...AWB, age limits, handgun bans, gun tax, mag limits, waiting periods, NFA.... I could go on and on. You must not be from the USA if you think they only talk about BGC and ERPOs.
I love how you immediately think I'm listening to right wing garbage. You do know there are a large and growing amount of left leaning people who are gun owners now right? Trump admin helped increase that number tenfold. You might want to read more into what you think the dems are saying, because it's not just ERPOs and BGCs....