Widespread acess to powerful tools of defense are always going to be necessary to minimize power disparities & keep social heirarchies in check
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Was it that they didn’t have guns or they were turned into bootlicking, cuck cultures at that point? Not sure if it’s correlation or causation but I think these state worshipping, desperate people are not in a good place.
Fair point, but even if there was a community with some sort of decent culture, if they have already been disarmed what can they do? There's really no deterrant at all. Sufficiently trained/brainwashed police or soldiers have little to fear. Look at Hong Kong. The resistance there was kind of impressive & admirable, but completely futile. How many of those people were just "disappeared"? Hong Kong is now just part of China
If people are unified in their disagreement of the regime, whether violent, not non-violent, rulers topple. The governed are largely giving consent. I think that’s the main factor in regimes getting away with evil. In a study of violent vs non-violent movements, they found that non-violent ones were surprisingly effective.
99% of the poor souls referred to here never had guns in the first place. But I think I get your point
It’s true, but the difficult part of this is when the time comes for the people to use them.