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>>Kapura+(OP)
Police who refuse to identify themselves and carry no markings used against an administration's political opponents sure sounds like something everyone should be opposed to, no matter their political camp.

If someone thinks that's a healthy part of a democracy, I'd be real curious about your reasoning.

>>Pfhrea+7u
I'd rather they be counterbalanced with a well-armed citizenry, such as the "cosplaying" the article insultingly describes.

>>madeng+xw
Yes, because pop-guns do anything against trillions of dollars in armor plating and advanced weaponry. Of course we never talk about what happens if the armed population goes along with the tyrannical government against the repressed as we're seeing now.

This is such a mentally lazy platitude. All arming the population has done is incentivize them to use their arms against their fellow countrymen.

>>beepbo+TA
> Yes, because pop-guns do anything against trillions of dollars in armor plating and advanced weaponry.

of course it does. bombs or tanks dont help you hold a city - it is singly people with firearms to kill the other people with firearms.

its a different story if youre talking total war, but theres basically no scenario where american military would decimate american cities.

> This is such a mentally lazy platitude

interesting opinion considering all you have to do is look at the last two decades of failed intervention in the middle east.

EDIT: additionally, many places in the middle east were occupied against their will by the terrorist forces we were there to fight. thats not the same as a citizen militia resisting occupation