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Martial law with 475,000,000 privately owned firearms? (Original Post) Aviation Pro Jan 12 OP
I've been thinking the same thing. pdxflyboy Jan 12 #1
Yep Aviation Pro Jan 12 #2
Nationwide martial law is clearly unenforceable Fiendish Thingy Jan 12 #3
Sounds like the NRA position when you support the same argument that millions of gun owners make regularly MichMan Jan 12 #4
Im sure they do... slightlv Jan 12 #22
What does owning a gun Tickle Jan 12 #5
Name a country that imposed martial law Aviation Pro Jan 12 #7
Poland, martial law 1981-1983 Tickle Jan 12 #10
Has Trump actually said he will impose martial law? PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 12 #6
Inferred through his citing the Insurrection Act Aviation Pro Jan 12 #8
Once again, let's not PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 12 #13
Exactly. Keep it rational, folks. paleotn Jan 12 #18
Yeah, i want to believe you slightlv Jan 12 #23
If DENVERPOPS Jan 12 #25
He says a lot of shit. paleotn Jan 12 #16
But there are only 6 gun owners lame54 Jan 12 #9
And many of those 475,000,000 firearms are not owned by MAGAt's. republianmushroom Jan 12 #11
I'm guessing not most though ... and by a long shot. KPN Jan 12 #21
In before the.... Fla_Democrat Jan 12 #12
Ain't happening. paleotn Jan 12 #14
My concern is that many of those gun owners are trumpsters, haters, militia types, etc., who will join in Silent Type Jan 12 #15
Oh, I think we got a taste of DENVERPOPS Jan 12 #26
'Liberals'will 'lie down and take it.' :sarcasm: speak easy Jan 12 #17
He'll deputize the militias. Kid Berwyn Jan 12 #19
Remember when we ridiculed sarisataka Jan 12 #20
Believe Congress will stop some of his crazy ideas KS Toronado Jan 12 #24
I don't have the stats at hand, but many firearms are concentrated in the hands of collectors with only two hands. usonian Jan 12 #27
Great movie Aviation Pro Jan 12 #28
I've got some insane rock formations here up on the ridge. One looks like a graboid. usonian Jan 12 #29
That looks like a fish 🐟 Blue_Tires Jan 12 #31
A rockfish. usonian Jan 12 #33
Under the MAGA version of martial law Blue_Tires Jan 12 #30
and that's just the guns they know about. Emile Jan 12 #32

Aviation Pro

(13,810 posts)
2. Yep
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:58 AM
Jan 12

Unless President Motherfucker-Felon wants to press his mushroom against the third rail of the 2A. To which I say good luck with that as well.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
3. Nationwide martial law is clearly unenforceable
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:03 AM
Jan 12

It’s never been invoked nationwide before, only to cities experiencing widespread rioting or natural disasters.

If martial law is invoked, it will only be applied to high profile blue cities like Portland or SF.

MichMan

(14,009 posts)
4. Sounds like the NRA position when you support the same argument that millions of gun owners make regularly
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:08 AM
Jan 12

I'm sure they appreciate it

slightlv

(4,697 posts)
22. Im sure they do...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jan 12

But you know what? You just don't lay down and let them take you. You might even find a way to make common cause against those mandating it. Stranger things have happened.

Tickle

(3,380 posts)
10. Poland, martial law 1981-1983
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:08 PM
Jan 12

During martial law was when they put on restrictions on owning guns

paleotn

(19,853 posts)
18. Exactly. Keep it rational, folks.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:54 PM
Jan 12

He is limited to the laws and conditions of politics. Some shit, most of his shit, just won't fly.

slightlv

(4,697 posts)
23. Yeah, i want to believe you
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:24 PM
Jan 12

I just find it hard to do with everything he's gotten away with. And now with the whole ball of wax in the neocons hands? Yea, I don't know.

DENVERPOPS

(10,617 posts)
25. If
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:38 PM
Jan 12

we all had a dollar for every time in the last 45+ years, we said: "The Republicans can't do that" or "the Republicans won't do that" we would all have more money than Musk and his fellow Republican Owned Zillionaires......

And the last 8 years all they are doing has accelerated to warp speed.

Dum-Dum Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld almost succeeded in repealing the Posse Commatatus Act.......The USSC stopped them.
I doubt there would be any interference by the current Republican controlled USSC this time around.

republianmushroom

(18,636 posts)
11. And many of those 475,000,000 firearms are not owned by MAGAt's.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:32 PM
Jan 12

Best think about it, convicted felon.

Fla_Democrat

(2,586 posts)
12. In before the....
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:33 PM
Jan 12

In before the 'smol pp' and 'they're cowards' team shows up... but I'm waiting to be entertained.






Silent Type

(8,017 posts)
15. My concern is that many of those gun owners are trumpsters, haters, militia types, etc., who will join in
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:52 PM
Jan 12

if trump declares martial law. However, I'm not convinced he will. I do suspect he'll send in some troops if there is some kind of protest that includes burning buildings, etc. They might just be there for show, though.

DENVERPOPS

(10,617 posts)
26. Oh, I think we got a taste of
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jan 12

what Trump and his loyal population of Trumphumpers will do, like during the Peaceful Black Lives Matter Demonstrations around the country, Particularly when Trump sent in selected fanatically bigoted Border Patrol Agents, with no identifying markings and unmarked vehicles to Portland.....

Kid Berwyn

(18,980 posts)
19. He'll deputize the militias.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:57 PM
Jan 12

The right kind of Turd Reich militia, if you get my drift.



These fucks brought their treasured manhood into the Michigan Capitol to protect their right to not wear masks during a pandemic.

sarisataka

(21,460 posts)
20. Remember when we ridiculed
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:59 PM
Jan 12

The idea of right-wingers ideas of fighting the government, their guns against tanks, planes, drones, nukes?

Any reason the idea is suddenly more plausible?

KS Toronado

(20,326 posts)
24. Believe Congress will stop some of his crazy ideas
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jan 12

maybe even the SCOTUS, but granted they will not be able to stop all of them.

usonian

(15,523 posts)
27. I don't have the stats at hand, but many firearms are concentrated in the hands of collectors with only two hands.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:45 PM
Jan 12


Not to minimize the problem, of course.
 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
30. Under the MAGA version of martial law
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:57 PM
Jan 12

White folks will be "deputized" to hunt down Latino immigrants, black folks and other "political enemies" of Donnie...

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