To keep the govt in check?

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Officially pulling out weapons and waving them around? No

    The threat of the usage… Depends on how you want to look at it. Look at Montana and Texas in the very early years of those states. I’m pretty sure you can find plenty of cases of small town governments not doing something stupid for fear that the locals would come get them.