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Yeah imagine you have a medical emergency or a fire or something and EMTs/firefighters come in and get caught in your boobytrap. Very not cool thing to do, those people are trying to save your life.

edit: if your concern is actually people coming in while you sleep you can get very effective barricades/reinforcements for doors and windows that can buy a lot of prep time.

Most states don't require a permit, and most states didnt have laws about private sales for years so basically a bunch of guns can be traded that have no paperwork, the government doesn't know who has guns anymore

The entire purpose of the USA’s second amendment is to protect the people from the government. There’s not supposed to be a standing army operating on local soil. Police, soldiers and ICE, ATF, DEA etc are the actual enemies at war with the population.

You are absolutely wrong that gun permits are necessary in all states. In Florida, the state Constitution actually prohibits gun permits/ registration. In fact, DeSatan recently lowered the age of gun ownership to 18, and removed the requirement for a 4 hour class in order to get a carry permit. So an 18 year old can just buy a gun, stick it in their waistband, and walk out of the store, totally legally.

The result of these laws, or lack of them, is that we just had a college campus shooting by an 18 year old. He was able to legally walk around with a gun without breaking the law, until he set foot on campus, where it is still prohibited. OTOH, the state legislature tries every year to pass a law that permits guns on college campuses, and new congressman Randy Fine just sponsored a bill to do that in February. Considering we just had a lethal campus shooting at FSU, its doubtful it will pass this year either.

You're certainly free to have your own opinions but most of your assumptions shouldn't be trusted by anyone else reading this.

It is possible to purchase and own firearms without a permit - typically just limited in form-factor and features (i.e. shotgun, no handguns or semi-auto rifles). And even when a (purchase) permit is required, that doesn't necessitate there being a registry and frequently one is explicitly disallowed. It's also possible to buy/trade firearms with private citizens (or 3d print/mill your own if especially crafty) which wouldn't provide a record to anybody but the included parties. When you aren't legally required to disclose you have a firearm it's always better not to make that known. Besides the potential worries about a fascist government coming for them, there's the concern that a list of firearm owners going public is a prime target for theft and break-ins.

Rifles aren't necessarily "slower to load," are you speaking specifically of bolt-action rifles with this? It's about the same amount of time and steps to load a magazine into an AR15 rifle as it is a semi-auto pistol. Unfortunately that also makes them effective in an unlawful mass shooting situation.

If you feel a firearm is the proper solution to the situation you NEVER aim to wound or fire warning shots. It's (presumably) always a life or death situation so you're hoping for the most effective "fight stopping wounds" which is basically center mass of whatever you can see. Same thing with rock salt in a shotgun, it's going to legally be seen the same as if you were firing shot/slugs so you shouldn't treat it like something you can use just to scare something off. In close range, shotguns will have practically no spread unless you're using an extremely cut-down barrel (typically cut to an illegal degree) - you still need to (and should be) direct aiming it and not wildly firing from the hip.

If you're worried about an attacker at your door, get a shotgun. Rifles are for when you can aim at a target at distance, pistols for when you can aim at close range. If you can't confidently aim at your target, a shotgun is very effective, even with only a partial hit. (And, if you miss, the shot is unlikely to significantly harm an innocent bystander.)

Also, most states don't require registration. My state is a little weird in that they are avoiding registering firearms, so they make you register transactions.

Should be noted that some states actively forbid gun registration.

Is it aimed at your front door, or is the actual door a gun somehow?

I mean, if the alternative is getting shipped to a torture prison in El Salvador with no due process? Not saying it's a good alternative, but it is an alternative.

Good, I don’t want to live in a fascist hellscape anyway.

There are federal agents that have been reshuffled to ICE as punishment for the Jan 6 investigations, and have been accused of leaking information to the press.

I originally just thought the termination of civil rights offices would mainly be to use polygraphs on these employees and refuse due process rights because so many were trying to warn people of what this administration is doing.

I wasn't expecting something like this memo so soon.

There are definitely plenty of loyalists carrying this shit out, but I believe the administration may be intentionally trying to reshuffle as many federal employees as possible (and now city police to ICE) to increase civil unrest and increase the chances the public will turn on the same people leaking information.

If Congress won't do their job, it will come down to these people willing to refuse orders and face termination if not arrest. The only reason I bring this up, is that if this happens we should keep in mind that there have been people inside ICE trying to warn the country about this stuff for a long time.

If we are too quick to dismiss all of them as loyalists, the administration will be able to downplay any dissent when orders are refused, and possibly convince others who are on the fence that it's in their best interest to comply bc the public is not on their side.

the supreme court gets to decide this. And considering some of the recent rulings about due process, I am hopeful.

Right, and history shows that these are major mistakes that always have consequences.