Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Why do tyrants always try to disarm their populations?

Do they? The CSA didn't. The KKK didn't. In fact, the KKK loved the idea of an armed population precisely because it enabled them to engage in oppression of the population, not the other way around.

So, first of all, both of those engaged in very substantial oppression of the white population. Both the CSA and the KKK executed whites for their political views. Did an armed population prevent that? On the contrary, it seems to have made it easier!

And in any case, the point is that arming a population isn't what prevents tyranny. What prevents tyranny is a political change in the government to put in a liberal democratic system that gives everyone civil rights.

Civil rights including gun ownership. And, yay, here we are. Problem solved.

No but gun ownership isn't actually what gives people rights. In fact it often prevents it. The Civil Rights moment focused on using the Federal Government to guarantee legal rights, and that was far and away the most effective way to end the oppression.