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@ThewTheKooky @freepatriot

The only thing you're really right about here is the violation of #2A, which begs an interesting question: is a violation of a single right inherently tyranny? Where does mere #authoritarianism end and tyranny begin?

On #ThePatriotAct, #Trump didn't pass it, and it'd actually have been tyranny for him to repeal it unilaterally. On taxation, #Trump has actually lowered taxes, not raised them, so I guess that makes him the opposite of a tyrant lol.

I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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It's interesting how dysfunctional the court has become Won't hear #2A challenges, can't reign in the lower Federal Courts, constancy and enforcing their Precedents in issued orders

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FWIW this thread will make sense if you stop normalizing the very #GOP practice ―started under George Bush I, for the first Persian Gulf War― of privatizing the US military through #military #contractors #mercenaries

once you look at #ICE as a privatized mob of enforcers, then you will see how Trump and #Republicans are using #DHS to shred not just the Constitution, but the 3rd 4th and 5th amendments before they come for the ammosexual #2A

can’t have armed citizens against a dictatorship

#SCOTUS announced on Monday that it would NOT hear a major #SecondAmendment challenge to a Maryland #law banning #SemiautomaticRifles like the #AR15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons.

The move, over the objections of 3 conservative justices, let the ban stand & reflected the court’s intermittent engagement with #GunRights. It has issued only 3 significant #2A decisions since recognizing an individual right to own #guns in 2008.

nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/supr

The New York Times · Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic RiflesBy Adam Liptak