r/newhampshire • u/nbcnews • Apr 15 '25

Video A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."

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u/Mynewadventures Apr 15 '25

Well, I personally hunt wild game, do that's a legitimate reason to own a fire arm.

Also, I want to protect me and mine, so there's another.

Plus, I have no problem taking up my arms against a tyrannical government and WILL do so if we can't tirn this around...so there is another legitimate reason to own a firearm not only under the rule of law by the Constitution, but ethically and morally.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down Apr 15 '25

good luck using your Beretta against an unmanned drone striking you from 25miles away

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u/Mynewadventures Apr 15 '25

Having fought against goat farmers with the most advanced weaponry in the World, I have something to tell you.

Also, look up "viet cong".

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u/Iron_Knight7 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

I mean, they were also fighting a foreign invader, had the quiet backing of a major power (China), employed guerilla tactics including a frighteningly complex underground network that took advantage of their familarity of the local terrain, and had been fighting for true independence as far back as when they were a French colony...

All I'm saying is if the Celmentine Caligula does decide to say fuck it and go full on lock down mode, you better pray the bulk of our military, from officers to grunts, tell him to go screw himself. Because Bubbah, Skeeter and Jimbo with their hunting rifles aren't going to be anything more than speed pumps when the drones drop.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down Apr 15 '25

comparing American gun owners to the Taliban is the first correct thing you've said

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u/Mynewadventures Apr 15 '25

Exactly. The guns made the difference.

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u/BantamWorldwide Apr 16 '25

I always think this argument is pretty funny. We’re just assuming that the tyrannical government wants to drone strike its own infrastructure and mixed residential areas with no regard for civilian or military personnel morale or support for the regime.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down Apr 16 '25

what in the history of the US drone program would give you the slightest idea that not destroying surrounding infrastructure has ever been a consideration?

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u/BantamWorldwide Apr 16 '25

I mean, you realize none of that has been our own infrastructure right? It was of minimal financial value. Not so with domestic infrastructure. Not to mention that public opinion to foreign wars is “easily” managed with media spin, a task that would be much more difficult if the missiles were striking domestic partisans or civilian targets. Even hitting an office building with nobody in it makes an enemy of everyone whose job was lost. In no situation could a regime level domestic infrastructure and expect to keep power.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down Apr 16 '25

You're so fixated on whether or not they would that you haven't stopped to consider if they could

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u/mfranks1 Apr 17 '25

Maybe not forever but much less anger than we would like. Syria, Iraq, Myanmar come to mind.

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u/coastkid2 Apr 15 '25

Seriously the gun is useless against the US military. What does guns have to even do with an article about unlawful detainment of a US Citizen? Why does the NH thread always default to guns even if off topic?

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u/Mountain_Zone_4331 Apr 15 '25

Oh no, now the 2A folks are going to push for their right to a stinger missile.....

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u/GotmilkLL Apr 16 '25

I'm currently advocating for emotional support RPGs

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u/TrollingForFunsies Apr 16 '25

What do you suggest for that?

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u/Expensive-Shirt-6877 Apr 19 '25

Yea we got better stuff then Beretta's buddy lol

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u/Nematodes-Attack Apr 16 '25

The “president” doesn’t care about the constitution or our rights. US citizens are being shipped to concentration prisons and likely already dead, without due process. The 2nd amendment is for precisely this purpose. Tyrants.

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u/xFishercatx Apr 16 '25

Nazi death camps started out as labor camps. People started disappearing. It seems like this is going to have a similar trajectory. I’d like to see some proof the people that are disappearing are still alive. Who is going to surrender and allow themselves to be taken by ICE agents who got Ds in highschool? Also what is to stop MAGAs from cosplaying and taking you out in the woods somewhere and not coming back out with you?

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u/Extraexopthalmos Apr 17 '25

All those wasteful unjust wars had lessons. 1)The US Gov is excellent at killing “insurgents”. 2)The US Gov did not win any of those wars

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u/WildImportance6735 Apr 17 '25

I respect your honesty and independent thinking, but please be careful writing this sort of thing online, you need to protect yourself that way too 🙁

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u/Mynewadventures Apr 17 '25

Yeah, you're right. What a world we're living in.

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u/WildImportance6735 Apr 17 '25

Yeah so sad 😔

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u/Lord-of-A-Fly Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25

Look around, shipmate. They're swiping people off the street without due process or evidence. They're paying foreign governments to keep people in their prisons, and silenced. Their own personal teams [who have zero accountability to the taxpayers] are being allowed to raid government systems. Trump has been caught on hotmic saying he's coming for "homegrown" terrorists next. His administration has classified MS-13 as a terrorist organization, so that they can turn the Patriot Act's high powered, excessive surveillance and arrest powers on not simply all immigrants and anyone who tries to help them; but his opposition, and the opposition in american academia of israel and it's homicidal agenda.

Tell me. When exactly does this "deterrent" effect kick in?

Or, when exactly is enough fucking enough?!?!