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kentuck

(111,056 posts)
Tue Aug 30, 2022, 08:11 AM Aug 2022

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

So it is with Trump supporters who own guns. They have it - they must use it. It's all they have. So, naturally, they would be supportive of a "civil war". After all, they have the advantage. They have the guns.

It is the guns that give them the false sense of superiority and security. They will resort to violence to defeat the liberals, if it is required. Everybody looks like an enemy.

The gun is their hammer. They are ready to use it to drive their enemies into the dirt, like a ten-penny nail. They have no fear of any opposition.

Their gun defines who they are and what they stand for. Take away their hammer and they would be lost. There would be no meaning in their lives.

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When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2022 OP
Well this liberal has guns nt doc03 Aug 2022 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author kentuck Aug 2022 #2
My husband and I are liberals, and we have guns. raging moderate Aug 2022 #3
Honestly, WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Mr. Ected Aug 2022 #4
Joe is going to give a speech on this topic in a couple of days.. kentuck Aug 2022 #5
This analysis makes a lot of sense. n/t Bobstandard Aug 2022 #6
I'm a liberal, and I have guns, too. But that's not the point. rsdsharp Aug 2022 #7

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Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
4. Honestly, WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
Tue Aug 30, 2022, 08:38 AM
Aug 2022

What?

What have we done to trigger their blood lust for a civil war?

What?

Had a different opinion regarding policy matters? Breathed their oxygen? What?

We may look like ten-penny nails to them, but their media has actually put a target on our backs. The gun humpers are simply Tucker's pack of hounds and they've been ordered to sic.

The collision of freedom of speech and capitalism is as dangerous an intersect as we will ever face.

kentuck

(111,056 posts)
5. Joe is going to give a speech on this topic in a couple of days..
Tue Aug 30, 2022, 09:45 AM
Aug 2022

He will also ask that assault weapons be banned. They have become a threat to our democracy. Guns in the wrong hands are destroying our country and killing off our future.

rsdsharp

(9,146 posts)
7. I'm a liberal, and I have guns, too. But that's not the point.
Tue Aug 30, 2022, 10:40 AM
Aug 2022

Civil war, is by definition, an insurrection. Biden could, and would, invoke the Insurrection Act to put it down. That allows the military to be used against the insurrectionists.

In 1861, the sides were pretty much evenly matched. We had muskets, they had muskets; we had rifles, so did they; we had cannon, they had cannon, and so on.

“They” don’t have planes or helicopters, or tanks, or APCs, or artillery, or aircraft carriers, or missiles or on and on and on. This wouldn’t just be assholes wearing “tactical” gear, shooting up their neighborhoods with there AR15s, like they think it will be. At least not for long.

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