imagitory reblogged
#pretty much#'because we have the second amendment' my ass#as soon as the black panther movement started carrying guns everyone in america friggin' panicked#the reason our continental army didn't want to hire black soldiers at first is because they were afraid of giving them guns#and seriously we have never surmounted actual or so-called 'government overreach' through violent means#interning german and japanese americans during WWII? we just ignored it until the war war over#the patriot act? also ignored because 'we just gotta hunt down those stinkin' terrorists'#even those people who claim the civil war was started because of government overreach and taxes are full of it#because the south seceded solely because Lincoln -- an anti-slavery Republican -- had won the presidential election#and yeah even if you do want to try and fail to counterargue me on that those Confederate traitors LOST#so yeah all that violence didn't even get them what they wanted#so my point stands#your second amendment hasn't done a damn thing to protect your other constitutional rights#let alone protect the rights of everyone else#maybe the military has -- maybe even police have too though both of them have infringed on people's civil rights plenty too#but your personal 'right to bear arms' as an American citizen has not protected you from government overreach and it never will#it only makes you puff up your chest and feel self-important#gun control#excuse me politics coming through#racism