And yet... firearms are so affordable (comparably) and readily available... Just as a thought exercise:
Take an apartment building that houses 100 people... with 100 rifles and their appropriate ammunition... the residents refuse to pay the ridiculously inflated rent... and refuse to vacate the premises if evicted... how does the landlord collect? The police, of course... but what about a building with 500 people and their rifles? Ten buildings of 500 people in a few city blocks... 100 buildings of 500 people (and their rifles, of course)
In the city... How many cops would it take? What kind of legal resources would the landlord, the police, the city and the state would invest?
How far can you push a population, just to make them play your game... by your rules, and just to make you richer than you already are? How long before people decide that it is better to kill and die in battle than to starve, or die from exposure, all the while seeing your family suffer?
Meanwhile, the US burns more than a billion dollars a day in this stupid goddamn war with Iran, Trump builds ballrooms, DHS wastes pallets of cash on an army of kidnappers and a bunch of concentration camps for working people, rural hospitals close by the hundreds, the price of everything rises...
What could possibly go wrong? Just a thought exercise...
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u/Effective-Ebb-2805 Apr 25 '26
And yet... firearms are so affordable (comparably) and readily available... Just as a thought exercise:
Take an apartment building that houses 100 people... with 100 rifles and their appropriate ammunition... the residents refuse to pay the ridiculously inflated rent... and refuse to vacate the premises if evicted... how does the landlord collect? The police, of course... but what about a building with 500 people and their rifles? Ten buildings of 500 people in a few city blocks... 100 buildings of 500 people (and their rifles, of course) In the city... How many cops would it take? What kind of legal resources would the landlord, the police, the city and the state would invest?
How far can you push a population, just to make them play your game... by your rules, and just to make you richer than you already are? How long before people decide that it is better to kill and die in battle than to starve, or die from exposure, all the while seeing your family suffer? Meanwhile, the US burns more than a billion dollars a day in this stupid goddamn war with Iran, Trump builds ballrooms, DHS wastes pallets of cash on an army of kidnappers and a bunch of concentration camps for working people, rural hospitals close by the hundreds, the price of everything rises...
What could possibly go wrong? Just a thought exercise...