I agree with this exactly. I actually support the idea of the people having enough power to potentially, if we all band together, violently overthrow a government if it becomes tyrannical. However, that is just not realistic any more. I'm not big on gun control, but what is some dude's AR-15 gonna do against a nuke? Or a battleship? Or a drone? Or a heavy bomber? Or a tank even?
Unless we start giving civilians nukes we will never be able to match the power of a government's military again (at least in the 1st world). Obviously we can't just give people nukes, so this idea of a balance of power between the people and government in terms of armament is unfortunately a relic.
This is the spirit of what I meant.
I am not completely convinced against or in favor of gun control.
Some governments which prohibit gun control are not more tyrannical than the US'.
Gun allowance are a good reason/excuse for the militarization of the police.
Guns can help the people against the government if the are smart (reminds me one of my old threads which was about tyranny)
Guns do ease on mass murderers, but are not necessary for them.
I may post about gun control in my blog.
Guns in the hand of common people increase the chances of shootouts between civilians and between them and the police by a lot.
Yeah, I am also moderate / have mixed feelings about this issue as a whole. When I look at countries where guns have been banned in recent years, they don't seem like they suffer from much tyranny to me. When I think authoritarian governments I don't tend to think of the UK, Australia, and France for example. Then again, I hate the idea of the police being heavily armed and citizens being basically unarmed.
HOWEVER, I think it is much more important that we fight the existing authoritarian policies of our government in the US before we act like we care about freedom. When people are getting locked up over having marijuana and then forced to work for basically no money in for-profit prisons for a decade, we have serious issues in this country. I wish that everybody who cared about freedom for gun rights cared about those issues as well.
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