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Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

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nvahalik ◴[01 Oct 19 13:30 UTC] No.21125093[source]▶
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

This is why we have the second amendment. And the constitution as the thing to which office-holders swear allegiance to rather than to "the party" or "the president".

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emptysongglass ◴[01 Oct 19 15:01 UTC] No.21126027[source]▶
This is absurd. Any chance a rebellious citizenry had armed to the teeth evaporated with standing armies.

Gun owners of the US cling to this ideal even while experiencing the worst spate of mass shootings in its history. There is no solution to this other than disarming.

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1. Clubber ◴[01 Oct 19 15:19 UTC] No.21126292[source]▶
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2. wbronitsky ◴[01 Oct 19 15:22 UTC] No.21126350[source]▶
Wow, what a needless, toxic comment that attacks a person when it could easily attack an idea. It is amazing to me how prolific these types of arguments have become on this platform. I don’t understand why we continue to push arguments that equate to “you disagree with me and therefore are an idiot who cannot see what is right in front of them”
3. josephdviviano ◴[01 Oct 19 15:24 UTC] No.21126375[source]▶
By this logic, do you think all of the other western democracies that do not have a right to bear arms are at risk of producing a Stalin?
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4. dang ◴[01 Oct 19 23:46 UTC] No.21132110[source]▶
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned on HN regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? We've had to ask you this more than once before.

It can be helpful to remember that when you go way out of bounds like this, you discredit the position you're arguing for. Assuming you're right, that means you're discrediting the truth, which helps no one.

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5. Clubber ◴[02 Oct 19 01:04 UTC] No.21132559[source]▶
Absolutely, whether internally or externally. Many of them got a Hitler in the early 1940s and could have very well gotten the actual Stalin in the late 1940s. Crimea and Georgia got a Putin not long ago, but the rest of Ukraine managed to fight him off for now it seems. Looks like Hong Kong is about to get a Xi. It happens all the time, all over the world and has for all of civilization.
6. Clubber ◴[02 Oct 19 01:05 UTC] No.21132566[source]▶
Ya sorry, I get excited.