[precisionshootist]

"Good luck running that around every acre in Texas. Impossible task, not enough equipment, and really hard to operate when someone is shooting at you. Truth is that nobody is going to find all the guns, and we aren’t going lie down like Australia and Canada."

Again this mindset makes it clear guns are useless for our side and we have already lost. I want to add we lost this battle a long time ago when we collectively took brute force off the table. You can't do that, ever. Diplomacy is utterly useless unless it's backed by the potential and willingness to back it up with brute force. The latter is where we failed.

[kosciusko51]

Diplomacy is utterly useless unless it's backed by the potential and willingness to back it up with brute force.

Will Rogers: Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie" until you can find a rock.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Again this mindset makes it clear guns are useless for our side and we have already lost. I want to add we lost this battle a long time ago when we collectively took brute force off the table. You can’t do that, ever. Diplomacy is utterly useless unless it’s backed by the potential and willingness to back it up with brute force. The latter is where we failed.
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Well and truly said. On the other hand there have been mass movements here and in other countries in which tens of thousands of unarmed citizens have forced tyrannical governments to end human rights abuses or be overthrown.