Oh, certainly. And the military has much better weapons (and training) than most 2A advocates.
My personal thoughts are that if even 5% of the population of large cities stood up and (even unarmed) said “no, you’re not going to destroy the country” that would have a significant impact.
(for residents in the DC metro area, that would be over 300,000 people, which you’ve exceeded in past protests - across the country if you could hit the 5% (17 million) protest target, you would certainly have a significant impact)
I know there’s a 50501 movement. I don’t know the size of it, (long way to go) but I think they’re still gaining momentum.
Long story short though, I really feel like this isn’t something that can be fixed by legislation or voting. That can help later, and can help support outside movements, but the people need to act, not just the politicians.
And people brewing coffee on a keurig don’t think about the process of making coffee as much as someone who grinds their own beans and brews a pour-over.
The output of the two is different. And while they can serve the same function (providing caffeine in the form of a drink), if someone needs artisan coffee, the keurig will not do.
And if someone has only ever used a keurig, they may not know where to start.
Anyways, I contend that we need to do a better job actually interesting people in artisan essays, so the slop produced by LLMs is more easily identified as such.
Of course that requires a desire to educate people for a reason other than extracting economic value from them, so it’s unlikely to become widespread.