Quoting the Founders doesn’t erase reality. Citizens with rifles are not “independent” from a government that has satellites, mass surveillance, AI targeting, financial tracking, warrants-on-demand, and legal force behind it. That gap isn’t philosophical, it’s absolute. The gap isn’t “less parity than we’d like,” it’s orders of magnitude difference.
What you’re defending isn’t citizen power, it’s state power you happen to like right now. Saying “we’ll take control later” is wishful thinking. Once these tools exist and are normalized, they don’t get handed back.
The 2A was about preventing runaway power, not cheering it on and hoping it behaves this time.
Also, why have you ignored this?:
But let's test how much you actually believe what you're trying to sell here. Let's pretend that everything in the video above was exactly the same....except ....substitute "Illegals" for "Christians" and "FBI" for "ICE", and set it a year ago, when Biden was in the White House. Would you have so readily been all for it? Defended it so thoroughly? Be honest. Actually answer this one question, if you do ANYTHING. Yes or No? Would you still have the same opinion of it as you've detailed above?
Quoting the Founders doesn’t erase reality. Citizens with rifles are not “independent” from a government that has satellites, mass surveillance, AI targeting, financial tracking, warrants-on-demand, and legal force behind it. That gap isn’t philosophical, it’s absolute. The gap isn’t “less parity than we’d like,” it’s orders of magnitude difference.
What you’re defending isn’t citizen power, it’s *state power you happen to like right now. Saying “we’ll take control later” is wishful thinking. Once these tools exist and are normalized, they don’t get handed back.
The 2A was about preventing runaway power, not cheering it on and hoping it behaves this time.
Also, why have you ignored this?:
But let's test how much you actually believe what you're trying to sell here. Let's pretend that everything in the video above was exactly the same....except ....substitute "Illegals" for "Christians" and "FBI" for "ICE", and set it a year ago, when Biden was in the White House. Would you have so readily been all for it? Defended it so thoroughly? Be honest. Actually answer this one question, if you do ANYTHING. Yes or No? Would you still have the same opinion of it as you've detailed above?
Quoting the Founders doesn’t erase reality. Citizens with rifles are not “independent” from a government that has satellites, mass surveillance, AI targeting, financial tracking, warrants-on-demand, and legal force behind it. That gap isn’t philosophical, it’s absolute. The gap isn’t “less parity than we’d like,” it’s orders of magnitude difference.
What you’re defending isn’t citizen power, it’s state power you happen to like right now. Saying “we’ll take control later” is wishful thinking. Once these tools exist and are normalized, they don’t get handed back.
The 2A was about preventing runaway power, not cheering it on and hoping it behaves this time.
Also, why have you ignored this?:
But let's test how much you actually believe what you're trying to sell here. Let's pretend that everything in the video above was exactly the same....except ....substitute "Illegals" for "Christians" and "FBI" for "ICE", and set it a year ago, when Biden was in the White House. Would you have so readily been all for it? Defended it so thoroughly? Be honest. Actually answer this one question, if you do ANYTHING. Yes or No? Would you still have the same opinion of it as you've detailed above?