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Bennett Tomlin
@bft.wtf

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

Bennett Tomlin
@bft.wtf

No, the founders intended the second amendment more to ensure that they would always have militias that the federal government could call on, the 'resistance to tyranny' explanation was far less ubiquitous (at least that is my understanding)

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Tait, the Spooky
@taittheterrific.bsky.social

To be clear, this is exactly what organizations like the NRA say the 2nd amendment is for. The long-standing conservative argument for it has been to physically and violently resist government overreach exactly like this. They won’t do that because ICE targets the people they hate, tbh.

Bennett Tomlin
@bft.wtf

I think Federalist No. 29 is the cite I'm looking for this, they believed that federal influence over state militas would reduce need for standing Federal army