Guns Aren’t a Bulwark Against Tyranny. The Rule of Law Is.https://nyti.ms/2fNGvJz
Which would a tyrant rather face? 320m people with no guns, or 320m people with 300m guns? Which would their soldiers pacify more easily?
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You don't seem to understand why occupying armies even with tanks and aircraft are so keen to locate and seize 'small arms caches'
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms"-Hitler 1942
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a Catalonian will surely add some perspective to this discussion.
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The primary determinant of whether a tyrant is deposed may be the amount of military and police forces that side with the tyrant or not?
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Rule of law didn't win the west and I find it odd how the "Arab Spring" found the common man armed with AR15s and stingers. Bad article.
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Welcome to binary world...Who are those family members and fellow Americans in the service? Automatons? No Pinker is dead right; the rule 1/
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of law is obviously what prevents tyrants from taking power. The threat we face in the US is exactly that; the arbitrary application..2/
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Precisely the point. The govt can still subjugate the populace but arms makes it more expensive to do so.
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You get to that point & you no longer have a country worth living in.
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