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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But that, in turn, depends on a political tradition embodying a certain conception of a citizen.
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Does the "certain conception of a citizen" relate to guns?
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Yes. One aspect of the US conception is: government and governed are the same type of person. Same rights, subject to the same laws.
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The government can print money, unlike the governed. Seems there are many examples where they are fundamentally different
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As I said, traditions, not a priori principles, determine whether there is rule of law etc.
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Whether e.g. the police, or the President, are regarded by tradition as government or citizens, deeply affects the nature of society.
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Agree w/ many points, but their argument that ~100 mill armed Americans is not a bulwark against tyranny does not account for their numbers.
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That's not the same as the government operating against local micro groups. Conquering an armed public orders of mag bigger problem.
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How long it takes modern military to complete siege of ISIS held cities makes good illustration of the problem.
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I’d like to see you defend the Rule of Law in Spain to defeat the coup d’etat of the Catalonian separatist party.
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When I was in Vietnam, I was forced to see that civilians with guns defeated the world’s mightiest military
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The rule of law is a social construct that has meaning only when it can be backed up by force. That is where the guns come in...
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BS. The laws of Venezuela and Russia (just to name a few) sure did a good job of keeping the Tyrants out of power.
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Law didn't save the over 200 million people killed by their own governments in the last century.
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A government that knows it is accountable to it's citizens is the bulwark against tyranny.
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Depends who's making the laws, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddamt?
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Sorry but law does not stop democracies becoming tyrannical. Nothing does, an armed populous just makes it more difficult.
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This is sloppy usage of data. I am not against gun control, but some of the points are clear cases of mere correlation, no causation.
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