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Americans:

"The 2nd Amendment is to protect us from a tyrannical government". 😎

Also Americans:

"The United States has the largest known prison population in the world. It has 5% of the world’s population while having 20% of the world’s incarcerated persons. China, with more than four times more inhabitants, has fewer persons in prison." 🥴

#justsaying

. 3mo ago

So much of this comes down to how much violence are ordinary people willing to commit today. I feel like my great grand fathers would either be convinced or willing to engage in war over things that may seem slight today. If anyone were to use them in the way they are intended most of the population would recoil in horror.

Most of the population here is afaid of seeing a gun, let alone using one for reasons beyond immediate defense.

Is the arguement we should have overthrown the government more often or is it that we should put down our arms and let the state go even further?

Does armed revolution make our gun ownership more resonable?

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Laeserin 3mo ago

Hmmm.

I don't know if there is any correlation between armed revolution and privately-owned guns in peacetime. This is an axiom that gets thrown out because Franklin said so, but most violent revolution seems to be happening in countries with low gun ownership rates.

Guns, after all, are very expensive, and munition even more so. And places awash with guns tend to have highly-militarized police forces, who can just shoot back.

Nepal has only 1.7 firearms per 100 residents, for instance.

The simplest way to overthrow a government is for a whole lot of angry young men to grab clubs, rush out into the street, and overrun police lines. Look at how shook the Capital Storm guys made the US federal government, and they were mostly unarmed and took selfies of themselves. Or how Trudeau was scared of the truckers.