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The interesting thing is that the US of today isn't a historical parallel with Nazi Germany.
The US has 300,000,000 guns (among other things) in civilian hands.
I don't think it's going to be an uneventful 10-20 years as this round of fascism works its way through the American system.
A lot of those guns are in the hands of individuals who align politically with ICE, but yes — the greedy dragon will inevitably attack enough people indiscriminately that this will become a serious factor in the years to come.
The only question is, how much damage is going to be done before people use them? Can we trust that the people will fight back against a homegrown Gestapo?
Furthermore, places that are most likely to see heavy ICE action will be places like California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, which checks notes... right, have the strictest gun laws.
Then you got gun owners like me who hate ICE.