how many of you CA residents plan to register your "assault rifles"

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35. Jim Crow was enforced by racist police departments.

Lynchings and vigilante killings may have had tacit approval of oppressive governments, but they were not law enforcement efforts by any stretch of the imagination. Mob rule of any kind delegitimizes and weakens any government that allows it to happen.

To your examples, I counterpose the Deacons for Defense, Robert Williams and the Black Guard, the IRA, the countless resistance movements to German and Japanese occupation in the Second World War, the equally numerous liberation movements in the Cold War era, and every action undertaken by Native Americans against the agents of the US government. There is more, lots more, but that will do for now.

That's all stuff you should have learned in high school.

You seem to be advocating para-military violence with armed groups supporting oppression on one side and on the other using armed violence in retaliation.

Only in your mind, Buzz, only in your mind. I'm advocating nothing of the kind.

Wouldn't a nation ruled by laws be a better alternative?

Certainly the rule of law is better, but only if it is just. What do you do when the rule of law is unjust, oppressive, and murderous? Would you prefer that the armed groups supporting oppression go unopposed?

Just to be clear, I think that selective support of rights is a hypocritical stance, whether it is taken by Republicans or Democrats.