It's not so much that we're idiots, you see, but that we're reevaluating based on how things have been playing out the last 70 years.
For example very noticeably: the most powerfully tyrannical developments in the modern US are the retributive legal system, state violence against poor and minorities, crackdowns on sexual and reproductive healthcare, oppression of sexual minorities. And these policies are overwhelmingly supported by the same people who purport to value so highly their ability to fight tyranny with guns.
And at the same time we're seeing a growing grass-roots racial terrorism campaign, again enabled by the same people & policies. Lotta "lone wolves" out there who independently decide they need to shoot up a bunch of black or asian or jewish people.
So again it's not that we're fucking stupid. We just see that you're not willing to use that power for us, and we want your friends to stop using it to kill our folk instead.
For example very noticeably: the most powerfully tyrannical developments in the modern US are the retributive legal system, state violence against poor and minorities, crackdowns on sexual and reproductive healthcare, oppression of sexual minorities. And these policies are overwhelmingly supported by the same people who purport to value so highly their ability to fight tyranny with guns.
And at the same time we're seeing a growing grass-roots racial terrorism campaign, again enabled by the same people & policies. Lotta "lone wolves" out there who independently decide they need to shoot up a bunch of black or asian or jewish people.
So again it's not that we're fucking stupid. We just see that you're not willing to use that power for us, and we want your friends to stop using it to kill our folk instead.