Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re referring to the Provisional IRA? Tell me how successful they were in their goals of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Personal firearms have basically never been used to resist government tyranny in the US or entire rest of the developed world in modern times.

    Please show us where success was required in the request?

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh so your advocating for resisting in unproductive ways? Glad to get that out in the open.

      Also, the Provisional IRA primarily used military weapons leftover from WW2 and modern ones to the era smuggled in from Libya.

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        All those military rifles are legal to own in most nations with gun ownership. It is a very relevant example. Or are you advocating now that this only counts if the firearms are side by side shotguns and hunting rifles?

        You are very much moving goalposts here and trying to put words and arguments I did not make in my mouth. Its not complicated, your point was no firearms where used to resist a tyrannical government in modern times, a point so completely incorrect as to be laughable.

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