The biggest obstacle to enacting effective gun control legislation in the US is the idea that a democratic government is an existential threat to its people. America was founded on this narrative, and it is what keeps people from wanting to part with semi-automatic assault rifles
Potentially, everything is a threat. Sanity means prioritising those threats that are credible enough to warrant the effort required to safeguard against them. Otherwise, I'd waste my life fortifying the ceiling of my apartment to assuage my fear of it collapsing.
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Agreed. And the threat of populist demagoguery to the survival of the Republic is clear today, as it was when Bill of Rights was passed.
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The dotard sure is a threat, but I don't think he's a military threat to his own people. There would likely be a coup before that happened. On the other hand, I agree he is very much a threat to honour, decency and above all, truth.
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