Far right: We have all the guns! what are those pussies going to do?
Also Far right: cities are so dangerous I heard someone got shot there
They’ll be out on the field in serried ranks with their Tacticool clothes and assault rifles, wondering where the other side is. Then the drones will come.
If it does happen, and I hope it doesn’t come to that, it’s going to be asymmetric.
Trying to make sense of idiots makes you the idiot.
If they start a civil war, the left will finish it because there is no longer acceptance of tolerating intolerance.
The American right has the same problem that the American South had.
Good luck with that, since we still have people bothsidering Republicans and Democrats to helpfully blunt any proper assignation of even the blame with the conservatives. There is a whole lotta “a pox on both their houses” kind of rhetoric. Often the online left helpfully joins in.
Not to mention a lot of the more vocal left calling everyone they don’t like a “shitlib” and spending lots of energy on useful things like oppression olympics and lectures on stuff like intersectionality.
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They, like their dear leader, massively overestimate their size and power, while underestimating their opponents’.
There’s a number of historical and contemporary parallels to draw against what would probably happen which have already been said elsewhere. The common thread is that a large number of people will die over a number of years (but not as many as in a proper war) and not much will be accomplished by either side.
The Troubles, American edition.
Yup.
There won’t be a front line or pitched battles like people are fantasizing about. Something will kick it off, maybe a riot, an assassination, or maybe an opposition leader gets life in prison or even executed on fabricated treason charges and people start shooting/bombing about it. Then there will be a round up of “terrorists” and probably some lynchings that go unpunished after all the current surveillance tech out there miraculously “fails”, all followed by a protracted insurgency as a response to these acts.
Pretty much, the main perps will be MAGAts as well. The middle is too gutless for violence and the left prosecuted heavier than the right.
It’s worked for like a century
They just do this to try and keep us from talking about a class war
It is a class war as well. The far right do represent the power structure of the wealthy over the masses. They’re in for that fight and just as much as the enemy as the billionaire class.
They often forget that plenty of left/liberal folks grew up with guns, and hunting.
Statistically not really. I’ve been part of liberal gun groups in the past and it was hard to get any traction. Many of the members were also extremely fuddy and mocked people for having “evil black rifles” rather than their preferred .38 cal revolver and 130 year old bolt action rifle.
Republicans own guns at nearly 3x the rate of Democrats, according to Pew, and only a portion of democrats would be considered “liberal” and even fewer leftist, while nearly all republicans would be considered conservative globally. I would wager a lot of money that the proportion is even more skewed if you were looking at just ARs and other types of guns that would be decently suited for combat rather than grandpappy’s hunting rifle or a rusty old revolver.
Having a lot of guns doesn’t mean shit when you can only use one gun at a time.
If 25 people are fighting 33 people, but that 25 people have 75 guns and the 33 people have 33 guns, it’s still an equitable fight.
Very liberal here and grew up in WV. Father was card carrying NRA. It was tradition in my family that you got a gun on your 10th birthday (a Ruger 10/22, not like an AR-15). We were taught very early about hunting, gun safety, and proper handling of a firearm. Don’t really own one right now … wife was very much against them with children in the house. She was never really exposed to them which is a large reason why. Although my step-son is also very liberal and a cop so there is that.
I’ve considered getting a firearm recently for lots of obvious reasons. Likely a handgun but I’d really like a long gun. I was pretty accurate when I was younger.
I imagine there are lots more like me than people realize.
