And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase,

but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

they have bottles, and curbs. trust me, does more damage than slugs in the wrong hands.

Even if there were 2A, they would cuck out in a minute.

2A for a determined populace is mainly symbolic, firearms aren't hard to procure when needed, and when needed, a group of men will do so with relative ease.

Our own 2A is about to get tested again, and everyone needs to keep in mind that the previous tests were failed by the citizenry.

I mean, some of this is happening here too, and we do have the 2A.

It's not enough to have a 2A. You also need weapons. It's not enough to have the 2A and weapons. You need the willingness to organize and to go out there and wreak havoc when tyranny raises its head.

We'll find out when they get mad enough!