Comment by yongjik
7 days ago
Just shows that the second amendment is an obsolete idea, and in today's real world it's more likely to oppress people's right to protest than help them fight tyranny.
ICE goons can shoot people because in America, law enforcement officers shooting citizens is thoroughly normalized. It's normalized because law enforcement officers getting shot is thoroughly normalized. It's normalized because the nation decided every village idiot can have a gun and the government can do nothing about it.
I can mill a perfectly working firearm in any highly-restricted legal jurisdiction anywhere in the world and the "government can do nothing about it."
These devices are over a century old: the cat's out of the bag, manufacturing technology has only gotten better and easier.
Sure, as long as you keep the milling machine and its product in your garage and gloat over it, the government will do nothing about it, because it doesn't know (or care).
You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seoul, and you will very quickly find out that the government can, in fact, do something about it, it will do something about it, the general public will side with the government against you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Gun ownership is a social construct. Where guns are banned, even criminals can't afford one, because there's no place to get these guns in the first place. Those who think they can outsmart the government will quickly find that guns out in the wild is considered a matter of national security and handled accordingly.
> You so much as walk around with your gun in the streets of Seoul, and you will very quickly find out that the government can, in fact, do something about it, it will do something about it, the general public will side with the government against you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Only if you're caught - which requires more than magic. Shinzo Abe would disagree.