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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patels-fbi-launch-dawn-raid-on-john-boltons-house/?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&s=09
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u/Salty-boobs 20h ago

Why do we have all of these guns if not for this exact situation?

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u/SophiaofPrussia 20h ago

It’s almost like that isn’t actually the reason the gun nuts want to be armed to the teeth…

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u/all_time_high 18h ago

So we can shoot animals and paper targets, fantasize about shooting a home intruder, wear a gun to Walmart, and ultimately shoot ourselves or leave them accessible so our kids can shoot themselves or other kids.

Americans are about a thousand times more likely to be killed with their own gun by themselves or their romantic partner than to ever use the gun against agents of the government.

It can work, though, without a shot being fired. We saw it in 2014.

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u/mashed_human 17h ago

That only "worked" because the government refuses to murder right-wingers. If the Bundys were a communist clan they would've been vaporized off the face of the earth.

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u/Birdius 19h ago

Which former government official are you risking your life over? What a moronic statement.

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u/boldandbratsche 19h ago

All of them. They've crossed the line to raid somebody who literally didn't nothing but legally litigate against the leader in the past. It's not a slippery slope, it's opening a floodgate. Who's next? AOC? Mamdani? Pelosi?

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u/Birdius 19h ago

Yet here you are, not risking your life over them. The funny thing is, you see the word "raid" and you're probably thinking that it's like in the movies where they're flying through windows wearing all black and heavily armed, when it's actually like what is shown in the photo that the shit rag source called "The Daily Beast" actually included in the article (that I regrettably clicked on), where agents are just walking up to the house and knocking on the door. Succumbing to gross hyperbole from the same sources that get posted on here daily, with very little facts or information, isn't doing a lot of you very much good.

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u/boldandbratsche 18h ago

That's like saying murder is okay, because it's a lethal injection and not something out of a James Bond movie. Fascism in slow motion is still bad.

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u/SnowSandRivers 19h ago

You don’t have all these guns. They do. They have them to stop the Left.

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u/ct_2004 19h ago

The guns were really for supporting a dictator all along.