Where is the tyranny requiring ownership of an AK-15?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/06/wheres-tyranny-requiring-ownership-of.html

If there's still a fear of "tyranny" taking over in America, it would be reasonable for the term to be defined prior to making that determination. For right wingers, it means anything that is done any time the left is in control of the government. That's not real tyranny, since there isn't anything specific they can point to that comes close to the definition of the term but those who intend to use the term for their own political advantage don't let that little bump in the road slow them down. Looking at real tyranny, in its whole context, including what the founding fathers believed it was, and what it means now, debunks the right's perspective.

Timothy Snyder, in his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, and who is a leading expert on the subject, says, "The founding fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than Europeans who saw democracy yield to Fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."

In all honesty. there is a pervasive belief on the political right that America is white, Christian Europe given a second chance with the untapped resources of North America, and that anyone of color, anyone, including Latinos because they are a blend of native American and Spanish heritage and the Spanish weren't part of "white Christian Europe" because they weren't Protestant, even though they actually discovered America. Go figure.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Exactly

“Just in case” doesn’t cut it.

[rampartc]

2. don't think they believe the left represents commie fascist tyranny?

ask them to please wear a mask.

[lees1975]

7. Exactly.

Compare wearing a mask to being a Jew in Germany in 1935. Of course, that's complicated for many Republicans who don't believe Jews have rights.

[Locrian]

3. projection

they know how they treat other "non-white" people. And with demographics changing, they think (project) that they will become the minority and be treated the same way. Hence the looming "tragedy" and panic

[GoldandSilver]

4. "Tyranny" fear.

I fear today’s “republican” is a fascist. They fear I’m a “socialist”. Fear is quite a motivator.

I still think the majority of US residents are somewhere in the middle but are afraid to speak up.

[lees1975]

5. There's no tyranny

as long as elections are free and fair. So that tells me where the biggest threat of tyranny is coming from.

[Paladin]

6. All the rightwing whining about "tyranny" went away, when trump seized power.

Ironic, but true.