# Will the virus and economic collapse lead to massive political unrest **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 21, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984 "2020-03-21T23:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/21 "2020-03-24T13:23:00Z")
Our Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and religion are being curtailed. So where are all the gun owners who say the 2nd amendment is there to protect all the rights? Why isn’t there a church somewhere with armed congregants outside ready to act if police attempt to make them disperse? Why aren’t there groups of gun owners in open carry states defiantly assembling? ---
**Author:** ![Kearsen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kearsen1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/22 "2020-03-24T13:48:24Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Our Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and religion are being curtailed. So where are all the gun owners who say the 2nd amendment is there to protect all the rights? Why isn’t there a church somewhere with armed congregants outside ready to act if police attempt to make them disperse? Why aren’t there groups of gun owners in open carry states defiantly assembling? You realize this sounds ridiculous, right? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/23 "2020-03-24T14:48:01Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Our Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and religion are being curtailed. So where are all the gun owners who say the 2nd amendment is there to protect all the rights? Why isn’t there a church somewhere with armed congregants outside ready to act if police attempt to make them disperse? Why aren’t there groups of gun owners in open carry states defiantly assembling? Haha!! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/24 "2020-03-24T15:09:55Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Our Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and religion are being curtailed. So where are all the gun owners who say the 2nd amendment is there to protect all the rights? Why isn’t there a church somewhere with armed congregants outside ready to act if police attempt to make them disperse? Why aren’t there groups of gun owners in open carry states defiantly assembling? Because Barack Obama is not President of the United States of America anymore. If he was, I’m positive all this and more would be happening. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/25 "2020-03-24T16:06:57Z")
> [@Kearsen1](#): > > You realize this sounds ridiculous, right? If you’re someone who believe the purpose of the 2nd amendment is to prevent tyranny and the erosion of our Constitutional rights it shouldn’t be. At what point are those who believe that going to act? Or have they just been all talk all this time? ---
**Author:** ![Kearsen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kearsen1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/26 "2020-03-24T18:06:47Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > If you’re someone who believe the purpose of the 2nd amendment is to prevent tyranny and the erosion of our Constitutional rights it shouldn’t be. At what point are those who believe that going to act? Or have they just been all talk all this time? No Constitutional right is being curtailed for one. YOU are free to go outside, hang with your neighbors or do any damn thing you please. What they have _asked_ is to distance yourself from your social life. Currently there is no mechanism in place to take that from you. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/27 "2020-03-25T03:29:14Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > If you’re someone who believe the purpose of the 2nd amendment is to prevent tyranny and the erosion of our Constitutional rights it shouldn’t be. At what point are those who believe that going to act? Or have they just been all talk all this time? The 2nd concerns a national militia, not fighting domestic tyranny. Civilians seriously thinking their personal weapons can prevail against the world’s most powerful military would soon learn otherwise. So yes, it’s talk, like an old guy complaining at clouds. This POTUS twice tweeted, Confiscate guns first. Due process later. How soon they forget. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/28 "2020-03-30T23:09:33Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Especially when it gets hot. Not everyone has AC at home. > > And the hot weather is quickly approaching. We had a couple of days in the 80s last week here, and I don’t even live in the deep south. Yeah, I wonder what those in Europe are going to do? I mean, they have people (generally old people) who die every year from the heat as many don’t have AC, and this is when they could go out. If the quarantine goes until the summer in Europe, it might be even grimmer than usual. ☹ And this with one of the hottest summers on record poised to happen, at least from what I’ve read…a perfect storm of clearing skies due to all the industry shut down and less particulate matter in the air and global warming hitting hard. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984/29 "2020-04-08T15:55:23Z")
> [@XT](#): > > As for the US, no, I’m not seeing revolution or whatever. At least not at this stage. I CAN see the US form of that, i.e. voters in a landslide voting out the idiots who caused this…or even who they THINK caused it. But actual revolution? No, that doesn’t seem likely. You’re an optimist, I like you for that. But the thought of Americans getting their shit together and voting out charlatans is simply ludicrous and has no precedent in our history. What WILL happen is we will allow this incident to further erode our rights just as we allowed with 9/11. This is not the home of the brave anymore. We as a society welcome any opportunity to cede responsibility, and with it freedom, to anyone willing to piss down our backs and call it rain. We are one step closer to being right roundly rogered. We won’t revolt, though. We are too chickenshit for that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-virus-and-economic-collapse-lead-to-massive-political-unrest/849984.md?page=1)