Here's why we need guns:

[MaryL]

When veterans of World War II returned home to McMinn County, Tennessee, they probably weren’t surprised to find that many of the same politicians from before the war were still running the place. A local political machine run by Paul Cantrell had been suspected of running the county and committing election fraud since 1936. However, when the sheriff’s deputies began targeting the veterans with fines for minor arrests, the vets suspected they were being taken advantage of. One veteran, Bill White, later told American Heritage magazine:

“There were several beer joints and honky-tonks around Athens; we were pretty wild; we started having trouble with the law enforcement at that time because they started making a habit of picking up GIs and fining them heavily for most anything—they were kind of making a racket out of it.
“After long hard years of service—most of us were hard-core veterans of World War II—we were used to drinking our liquor and our beer without being molested. When these things happened, the GIs got madder—the more GIs they arrested, the more they beat up, the madder we got …”
By early 1946, the vets and the townspeople were tired of what they saw as corrupt practices by Paul Cantrell and his lackeys. The vets started their own political party with candidates for five offices. The focus of the contest was the race for sheriff between Paul Cantrell and Henry Knox, a veteran of North Africa.

Everyone knew that the election could turn violent. Veterans in nearby Blount County promised 450 men who could assist in any need that McMinn County had on election day. In response, Cantrell hired two hundred “deputies” from outside the county to guard polling places.

What happened next would go down as the “Battle of Athens,” or the “McMinn County War.”

Sound familiar?

 

[miketx]

Seen it before and you're correct.

Battle of Athens (1946) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JoeB131]

When veterans of World War II returned home to McMinn County, Tennessee, they probably weren’t surprised to find that many of the same politicians from before the war were still running the place. A local political machine run by Paul Cantrell had been suspected of running the county and committing election fraud since 1936. However, when the sheriff’s deputies began targeting the veterans with fines for minor arrests, the vets suspected they were being taken advantage of. One veteran, Bill White, later told American Heritage magazine:

Actually, it was kind of stupid. Some drunks decided to overthrow the local government, realized they had no idea how to run the county, and then got voted out.


This from the article Mike posted, but clearly didn't read down that far.


The new GI government of Athens quickly encountered challenges including the re-emergence of old party loyalties.[19] On January 4, 1947, four of the five leaders of the GI Non-Partisan League declared in an open letter: "We abolished one machine only to replace it with another and more powerful one in the making."[20] The GI government in Athens eventually collapsed. Tennessee's GI political movement quickly faded and politics in the state returned to normal.[7][21] The Non-Partisan GI Political League replied to enquiries by veterans elsewhere in the United States with the advice that shooting it out was not the most desirable solution to political problems.[15]

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

No one has the balls to do that anymore.

Americans took covid restrictions, lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccinations...with gaped, drooling grins...they will take anything.

The greatest generation has been dead for a while...replaced by their spoiled children...and their socially, and politically indoctrinated grand children.

This country is ripe for the picking.

Stop the fantasy train at the next stop...need to keep prepping.

 

[miketx]

No one has the balls to do that anymore.

Americans took covid restrictions, lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccinations...with gaped, drooling grins...they will take anything.

The greatest generation has been dead for a while...replaced by their spoiled children...and their socially, and politically indoctrinated grand children.

This country is ripe for the picking.

Stop the fantasy train at the next stop...need to keep prepping.

Public schools indoctrination.

 

[MaryL]

When "WE" the people, say like 80% , say something ,this is how democracy WORKS...the democrats sorta forgot that principle. "We the people" oppose making up gender identity or lazy identity hating on whites because Soros funds .001% that gays or trans genders are an issue. They aren't. 99.99 5 of us oppose liberalism. We do. But here we are,

 

[MaryL]

Actually, it was kind of stupid. Some drunks decided to overthrow the local government, realized they had no idea how to run the county, and then got voted out.


This from the article Mike posted, but clearly didn't read down that far.


The new GI government of Athens quickly encountered challenges including the re-emergence of old party loyalties.[19] On January 4, 1947, four of the five leaders of the GI Non-Partisan League declared in an open letter: "We abolished one machine only to replace it with another and more powerful one in the making."[20] The GI government in Athens eventually collapsed. Tennessee's GI political movement quickly faded and politics in the state returned to normal.[7][21] The Non-Partisan GI Political League replied to enquiries by veterans elsewhere in the United States with the advice that shooting it out was not the most desirable solution to political problems.[15]

It couldn't possibly be that a certain "political group" created political machine and a bunch of armed "yahoos" that actually saw oppression fought against it. That couldn't possibly be the issue. Why the hell not?

 

[JoeB131]

It couldn't possibly be that a certain "political group" created political machine and a bunch of armed "yahoos" that actually saw oppression fought against it. That couldn't possibly be the issue. Why the hell not?

Nope, not really.

A bunch of GI's returned from the war, didn't like that the county was keeping them from getting drunk and raising hell, decided they didn't like the result of an election and acted like a mob.

When they got control of the county government, they quickly realized they had NO IDEA how to run a county, which involved things like "math skills".