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Home invasion, government tyranny, personal protection, protection of property. These are at least the main reason though of course hunting and other things would also be on the list as well.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

On government tyranny, this is a discussion I wanted to have actually through a rational lens.

While I love the principle of a population able to keep the state in check, is that really happening in the US? The state seems to be increasing taxes (stealing), printing money (inflation aka theft), implanting increasingly authoritarian laws under the name of "anti-terrorism", and so on... at what point is the populus going to take the fight to the tyrannical state, especially with all the propaganda that keeps everyone divided?

This is a genuine question I'm not trying to mock the idea because I love it in theory. But all I see is the state increasing its own power just as it is over here.

Then you have other considerations like police in the US are increasingly militarised and seem to be power hungry and against the people.

The government has missiles and drones and all sorts of other shit.

And again the propaganda machine driving people against each other is sadly very effective.

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therealnewyorker 2y ago

Right now if it came to it, the armed population would overrun the state, but this is why they’re doing all they can to break us down in other ways. Keep us divided along every lines, like race, vaccination status, trans, all while breaking down the family unit which is the smallest building block of society. Weakening and emasculating men by telling them masculinity is toxic, at the same time teaching the kids in schools all the same as above, to get them indoctrinated early as possible. In a couple of generations time society may be too weak to stand up to a government, even if they do have more people and guns than them. It’s all by design

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

This is the thing. Because the state's psychological warfare against its own citizens can't be discounted as a weapon the state has monopoly over.

If they can use these side channels to keep the population fighting each other instead of them, whether you are armed or not doesn't matter as far as state tyranny goes.

Jac 2y ago

Unfortunately most people are stupid, apathetic, and completely lacking sentinel intelligence. None of this is a reason to give up though. The stupid animal just sees the bait and misses the trap, failing to see that the trap and the bait are both free for the taking with effort and analysis.