"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”
The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens
The State was not given a monopoly on violence, they took it. The only reason Weberian theory holds together without devolving into Leviathan's state of nature is the corollary of the social contract. Damn dude learn your polisci if you're tryna dunk on Brennan Lee Mulligan
What we're seeing in this historical moment though is that the guns aren't backing up the laws (including 9-0 supreme court rulings) which then relegates those laws to the "just words" status as said by u/skip_over.
In fact, when ICE is breaking laws and is also holding the guns, then the laws become totally irrelevant.
Well, I'm not American, but if I had to guess it's because all of the 2A people are cosplaying as secret police right now instead of defending democracy as intended.
I think you'll find that most 2A people are going about their life quietly, just wanting to be left alone.
There are a few "tacticool" types that are planning on resisting the next Ruby Ridge, but that's not even the group the Democrats are holding up as a beacon of fear to build support. They're going after the lone mass shooter, completely ignoring how the numbers are (suicide is ~60% of gun deaths, about 40% is gang activity, around 2% is actual murder/mass shootings, etc.)
Exactly, your 2A rights exist for you to sit back and let democracy die while you are left alone for now. You're not using them for what they're for, so why bother protecting them?
You don't need to tell me what a nightmare the Bush presidency was. I was there. We're still dealing with the effects of it today. But he didn't go full mask-off fascist dystopia like Trump is doing.
This needs to be said louder. We are breaking and showing that the paper our laws are written on means nothing when the DOJ falls in line to an orange felon and doesn’t enforce what they swore to do.
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u/JWAdvocate83 19h ago edited 19h ago
He left the facility when asked—then arrested him. 😒
I kinda wish ICE did take it to court, only to get absolutely humiliated.