(01-06-2025, 03:42 AM)727Sky Wrote: https://youtu.be/Pz00l_od8Ag
There was a very telling comment near the end of that video, made by a lawyer no less. She said "The Party controls the guns - what can The People do?" That's a pretty solid real-world example of the need for The Second Amendment.
Be that as it may, I'm here to tell you right now that there sometimes comes a point where it doesn't matter who controls the guns. People can, and sometimes do, reach a point of desperation where death on your feet is preferable to life on your knees. When that tipping point occurs, bad things happen rapidly.
I've told the tale before of the Bosnian War where, near the beginning of it, an acquaintance of mine and a couple of his friends enticed a soldier on patrol down a dark alley "for a drink". They came back out, carrying his weapons, and he never rose again. They took those weapons and took out a few other soldiers on patrol, gaining more weapons with which to arm more people. A week or so later, the by then larger militant mass took over a weapons and ammo depot... and armed even more people.
Then the war was on. It happened just that fast.
The actual power really does reside with "The People", but sometimes it takes them getting desperate enough to exercise it in earnest for change to come. The CCP should beware, and be more responsive, take better care, of their citizens lest a desperation point prove to be their undoing and the rich get eaten.
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