• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    no government shall bare arms against its own citizens

    Is this some kind of quote? Because 90% of what all governments do is exactly that: using weapons against their own citizens.

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        Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.

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      citizens are the government though. if they are not, its not democratic country.

      Still, there should be no need to even threaten citizens with violence and if there is, it should be resolved mutually instead of just oppressing the people into submission.

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        citizens are the government though.

        Did you mean that people in government are citizens? Because I’m a citizen of my country and not in the government.

        if they are not, its not democratic country

        Correct. The United States is not a democracy. It’s barely even a “representative democracy”.

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          people in government are citizens but not every citizen is in government. But every citizen should have equal right and opportunity to be in the government.