Non-violent resistance campaigns we're about 2x as likely to succeed as violent one's or in other words Take up arms and you'll only have about a 26% chance at succeeding.
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Btw to those of you that think guns and Violance is the best way to overthrow a tyrannical government you’re wrong. According to “Civil Resistance Works: The Statigic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” that used every violent conflict they could find from 1900-2006 (232 total) as data
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So know when the NRA says Violance and guns are the only way to overthrow the government only say so to sell more guns and rely on scaring Americans into a false narritive where you can only over throw a tyrannical gov with guns. They are wrong and only successful 26% of the time
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But it gets worse only 40% of countries taken over in armed conflict are still democracies 5 years later. Violance is not the answer one it cost lives and is not successful 3/4ths of the time.
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The book was written by American academics Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan.
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1. The government has at its disposal missiles, tanks, apaches...Even if everyone was armed we would have no chance. 2. The above is moot. The men & women of the Armed Forces would never turn on the people. They have more honor than that. How disrespectful to think otherwise.
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Or so we hope.
@RollingStone documents infiltration of military by neo nazis: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazis-fascist-youth-united-states-w519651 … - 2 more replies
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The 2nd amendment is the most embarrassing flawed misunderstood misrepresented part of our constitution. The NRA has figured out how to monetize and manipulate it into a "sacred" and even religious tool for gullible people to enrich a corporate gun industry.
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Amen!
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