Facts show owning more than 40 guns is actually fairly common in the United States, and violence falls most heavily on the country’s poorest neighborhoods
The whole "we have guns to make a revolution to overthrow a tyrannic government" thing is such a big joke that even leftist Americans believe. When and if some kind of revolution is viable, the government will have outlawed them anyways in response to that and leftists definitely won't have the advantage in gun ownership. They'll still have to do it the same way everyone else does, illegally and with the help of dissident military/police, and even then that will be secondary to the rest (general strikes etc). It's only little street fights that they may be useful in, but, like, they're just not terribly important in general.
This is less about revolution and more about leftists realizing they’re outnumbered
That's really the central issue. The issue is being outnumbered. Not just for defense purposes, but in general. The left is going nowhere if there aren't numbers behind it.
The whole "we have guns to make a revolution to overthrow a tyrannic government" thing is such a big joke that even leftist Americans believe. When and if some kind of revolution is viable, the government will have outlawed them anyways in response to that and leftists definitely won't have the advantage in gun ownership. They'll still have to do it the same way everyone else does, illegally and with the help of dissident military/police, and even then that will be secondary to the rest (general strikes etc). It's only little street fights that they may be useful in, but, like, they're just not terribly important in general.
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That's really the central issue. The issue is being outnumbered. Not just for defense purposes, but in general. The left is going nowhere if there aren't numbers behind it.