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The concept that "if jews had guns" the holocaust wouldn't have happened was deliberate inflammatory rhetoric and propaganda from the NRA and US right wing talk radio (Rush Limbaugh et al) and is not based in fact or truth, and only arose in the 1990s as a last ditch attempt to prevent (American) gun control laws.
Intellectually and philosophically the problem with the argument is that you are imagining an entirely fictional past (Jews having guns in the Weimar Republic) and claiming that the imagined fantasy past proves that the real history and present would have successfully been altered. It would be as logical to claim that if Jews had dynamite, or chainsaws, or wore plate armor, or carried a magical talisman, or memorized a specific poem they could have prevented the holocaust. All of which, including guns, is extremely improbable at best.
And so is the case here. I asked another commenter when they expected to start killing cops, and how many they expect to kill. No reply. I'm not telling you or recommending you do it, I just find it interesting that everyone telling me to kill cops on sight isn't doing it themselves.
You pivot to "we need to stop ICE" but I don't want to lose the focus of this discussion which was suggesting that I open fire on police officers on sight as a solution to this political problem.
Opening fire on sight was never my suggestion.
If ICE comes for you or someone you would fight to protect, I think you should consider it. Trump said he wants Bukele to build five more prisons. He signed and order and bid a contract to expand Guantanamo to 30k beds. No one is coming back from Cuba or El Salvador until Trump is out of office and even if he doesn't succeed in his third term plans there are no guarantees any one person would survive until then. Or that the next administration will do anything for the prisoners.
I don't want anyone to be shot, but our lives on on the line.