Fair. But I hear this a lot. If the country was such a special snowflake because of guns, it should look very different to what it has become.
Discussion
Facts.
TBH, the stockpiles of weapons that some Americans have in their basements doesn't seem to make them any more inclined to openly defy the government.
It's the opposite: the portion of the population with fewer weapons is more willing to protest.
Yeah some developments in the US look like #eulag totalitariniasm.
In history though totalitarian self-defense weapon confiscation inevitably leads to threat to loss of life and property.
Ottoman Empire confiscated guns and genocided 1.5 million Armenians.
Soviet Union ethnically cleansed 4 million in Holodomor alone. Guns were confiscated from “enemies of the state”.
China killing fields - CCP in 1949 took away guns. 65 million were executed and disappeared.
US massacre of unarmed Native Americans - see Wounded Knee.
There were US gun control laws in prohibiting slaves from owning guns.
Palestine has strict gun control laws, where Israel is engaging in genocide, today.
In any case, gob clamping down on the right to self defense means good things dont await.
Canada is on track to confiscate guns nationally. Good things dont await, unless you are into totalitarianism over the natural human right of self defense.
I agree with all that.
There's a distinction between necessary and sufficient. All I'm saying guns are necessary but not sufficient. You can have guns and prevent some form of tyranny, yet live in a shithole.