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Jack Valentino

(3,558 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 11:07 PM Friday

The future "despotic dictatorial gov't" which pro-gun advocates claimed to fear is NOW HERE!--- and RIGHT-WING [View all]

it is a Republican right-wing government,
as I often predicted such an authoritarian government would be, if it actually came to pass...


and ironically, members of this government have ALREADY proposed taking away gun rights
from one segment of the population--- trans people:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment


So far, the vast majority of those '2nd Amendment' advocates have proven to be no help whatsoever
against a dictatorial government, now that it is upon us... Instead, they are more in this class of persons:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me


(with this post, I am NOT advocating for violence, by any means---
but I think we can now safely dispense with the argument that
"protecting 2nd Amendment rights" to extremes
is ANY protection whatsoever against a 'future dictatorial government' !!!)

Those people won't even open their mouths, let alone 'defend liberty' by virtue of being armed....
in fact, most of them sympathize with the dictator, in this case...





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