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Perhaps the gun owners are less likely to protest because the government is less likely to do things that they don't like that are obvious enough to upset them?

"Whatever happens,

We have got,

The Maxim Gun,

And they have not"

- Belloc Hillaire, and every government that isn't the USA.

Last century, at least twenty different governments killed at least a million of their own subjects ("democide"). Democracies, autocracies, single-party regimes. Right-wing and Left-wing. Religious and secular.

But none of them was the US of A. Even though it is #4 or so for population, and has at least as many bad politicians as anywhere else.

Something is very unusual about the US of A, and I think its likely the way the tax base can shoot back.

George Vaccaro 1y ago

Great points. One correction: it's more like 260,000,000 not 1,000,000.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE5.HTM

First rule of gun use, don't pull it out unless your life is credibly threatened and you are prepared to use it.

Similarly, we won't use them when our job is threatened if we don't get the experimental jab. However if they came door to door and tried to force it into us and/or our children then I'm pretty confident there would have been serious push back.

For people who either willingly gave up their guns or never considered or still don't understand their necessity to criticize us for not giving up our lives over lower priority issues is a bit comicsl and also demonstrates childish immaturity or maybe something uglier.

When they are necessary it will be obvious.

Your point is astute. The fact that we have so many guns and attentive gun owners definitely limits the creative imaginations of our "ruling class". It's a power balancer sort of like a cold war.

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