1/ 100% this. Discussions around the Second Amendment usually make the implicit assumption that handguns & rifles can still function as a sufficient “check & balance” against central government. The 2A was written in a different, long-outdated context.https://twitter.com/santisiri/status/978357209724747776 …
7/ Taking a step back, one has to wonder if it is still a good idea to “fight force with force”? In an arms race, the one with possession of the means & technologies to produce advanced weaponry gets the upper hand. That usually means the central government.
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8/ So the scale was never truly balanced to begin with, and increasingly becomes unbalanced.
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9/ If “fight force with force” might be a losing proposition, are there other ways to fight force? Encryption & more generally the fight over control/flow of information. Uncensorable money. These are things that might be more effective in terms of rebalancing the scale.
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or colombia
where guerrillas did have guns and fought the government.