It is always good to remember that in the warped world of policing, lying to witnesses is considered a core competency of the job, and lying to the public is seen as an essential element of their shield of infallibility and impunity.
The Founders of this great nation understood the capricious violence of the police state. This was not a theory or a rumor. It was a very real element in their world, and they knew it would always be lurking in ours.
And so they decided that the right of the people to assemble and protest would not be restricted (First Amendment), and that the only way that right could be guaranteed in a creeping police state, was to make sure the right of the people to own guns for self-defense could not be abridged (Second Amendment).
This is an important point. In a creeping militarized police state, if only the police have guns, and the courts themselves are part of the problem, then the only safe-check left is People Power, secured by force if necessary.
Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but push has come to shove in almost every other country of the world at some point, and it's a bit naïve to think it could never happen here (since it already has).
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I'm a Northerner, my family has lived here since before the Revolution. I was trying to explain to someone recently that it was the Fugitive Slave Act that truly galvanized my ancestors who were pacifists to understand that violence was going to be necessary to stop slavery. Yes, the slave catchers coming up here and dragging any one who happened to be black off our streets and kidnapping them to plantations. Many of whom had never been slaves or even lived in the south, with no recourse or due process. That fired people up like nothing that came before. It was a violation. The reason why I was talking about it? The immediate threat of mass deportations. Forcibly removing our neighbors from their homes, dragging them out of their workplaces, doctor's offices, maybe even churches. The cruelty is most definitely the point, and it must be stopped and sometimes the barrel of a gun is the only way.
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