While not wrong, this is focusing on what can be done inside the system. It’s ignoring an additional threat.
Fascist regimes typically require a kind of “secret police” to enforce the broader agenda. Such a force acts in a completely extra-judicial way while being completely loyal to the regime and its need to gain and express power. All that’s required for this to work is for people to look the other way, including police.
The whole game is about optics. They won’t look like Nazi SS or whatnot. Think proud boys (white t-shirts, brown pants), KKK, white nationalists, and worst of all, just groups of guys dressed like they’re ready to carpool to the office. Given any amount of power, groups like this will waste zero time exercising violence, but with all the optics of legitimate police, government, and even judicial process. So picture kidnappings dressed up like arrests, murders that look like resisting arrest, trials that are just kangaroo courts, public assassinations that resemble lawful executions.
Resistance is the opposite: communities banding together, aligning themselves with legitimate local government, and operating within the strict limits of the law. This forces the bad guys to operate outside the law in full view of the public, which blunts their power and reach. It’s not impossible to mount a defense in this way if one considers the huge amount of overreach this generates - power tends to dislike other people rendering that power moot. So throwing in with local and state government is a worthwhile tactic here.
A hot take, but a valid question. I am not a lawyer.
This depends on where you live. Some places have a Castle Doctrine, some have an “legal duty to retreat”. There’s also the legality of your own firearm, and if anything happens outside your home, if you’re licensed to carry in public. There could be other ramifications, but your local 2A folks (even the folks that voted for Trump) may know quite a bit about what the rules are.
If you’re this concerned, I strongly recommend getting a neighborhood watch going. A line of defense outside the home may buy precious minutes.
While not wrong, this is focusing on what can be done inside the system. It’s ignoring an additional threat.
Fascist regimes typically require a kind of “secret police” to enforce the broader agenda. Such a force acts in a completely extra-judicial way while being completely loyal to the regime and its need to gain and express power. All that’s required for this to work is for people to look the other way, including police.
The whole game is about optics. They won’t look like Nazi SS or whatnot. Think proud boys (white t-shirts, brown pants), KKK, white nationalists, and worst of all, just groups of guys dressed like they’re ready to carpool to the office. Given any amount of power, groups like this will waste zero time exercising violence, but with all the optics of legitimate police, government, and even judicial process. So picture kidnappings dressed up like arrests, murders that look like resisting arrest, trials that are just kangaroo courts, public assassinations that resemble lawful executions.
Resistance is the opposite: communities banding together, aligning themselves with legitimate local government, and operating within the strict limits of the law. This forces the bad guys to operate outside the law in full view of the public, which blunts their power and reach. It’s not impossible to mount a defense in this way if one considers the huge amount of overreach this generates - power tends to dislike other people rendering that power moot. So throwing in with local and state government is a worthwhile tactic here.
So what’s to stop me from gunning them down as home invaders?
No badge means no holster, right?
A hot take, but a valid question. I am not a lawyer.
This depends on where you live. Some places have a Castle Doctrine, some have an “legal duty to retreat”. There’s also the legality of your own firearm, and if anything happens outside your home, if you’re licensed to carry in public. There could be other ramifications, but your local 2A folks (even the folks that voted for Trump) may know quite a bit about what the rules are.
If you’re this concerned, I strongly recommend getting a neighborhood watch going. A line of defense outside the home may buy precious minutes.
I’ll put my trust in a semi-auto-blunderbuss. (I’ll put my trust in a good lawyer over some fascists not leaving my battered corpse in a ditch. )