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> The real reason America is armed is so that if our government ever gets too tyrannical, we can do something about it.

The something is killing police and soldiers. That's the quiet part.

Unless the tyrannical government has presented itself at the compound in a force of plumbers and actuaries.



you say it as if it's inherently bad

historically, when a government became too tyranical, either the government went on and on, or people did the quiet part




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