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They make the laws, for as long as they can make the laws.

If they can't make the laws, they'll still follow them...if they like them.

If they don't, they'll ignore them

If they can't ignore them, they'll kill

That's what the guns are for

That's according to them, by the way
Which, one realizes, is the point of occupying a city with guns.

Peacefully, for now.

The "for now" is often implicit, but they'll say so explicitly, or in their references to watering the tree of liberty, or their aspirational threats of civil war if they don't get their way.
It's to show us that it's not just talk. It's to show us they can, and will—that for them, we are not a nation of laws, but a nation of guns.

Yes, and why do they so revere the statues of confederates, anyway, who murdered their countrymen, to preserve and expand human slavery?
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