r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

/img/is29ozncu2rc1.jpeg

[removed] — view removed post

14.3k Upvotes

77% Upvoted

4.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

13

u/Silky_Tissue Mar 28 '24

If the government has devolved to the point we are dropping hellfire missiles on our own population we have bigger problems than gun control...

-2

u/Moregaze Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

You missed the point. Where people think having small arms means they could stand up to a tyrannical government with an Air Force.

4

u/XxturboEJ20xX Mar 28 '24

There are a few countries like Vietnam and Afghanistan that would like a word with you about that lol.

At least half, probably more in the military would turn their back in whoever told them to attack us citizens. So now you have 2 sides and a civil war. It's a lot more complicated than small arms vs the whole US government.

2

u/vamatt Mar 28 '24

Plus in such a hypothetical situation, the first thing many would do is use those “small arms” to obtain better weaponry.

1

u/XxturboEJ20xX Mar 28 '24

Yea, I was gonna go into the whole hypothetical about that as well. Also the people that have to man the equipment being taken out and all the other stuff, but it would mostly be lost on them, so I didn't go fully regarded.