expos4ever
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I think this argument does not apply anymore, certainly not in the USA where it's highly trained, super-high-tech military would only be slightly inconvenienced by an armed populace.But the first thing evil governments do is disarm their people - people are much better controlled if they can't fight back.
Besides, I suggest this notion that your government, or any freely elected government would turn on its own people seems rather far-fetched for reasons I do not think I need to explain. Can you think of any modern democratic nation which has turned on its own people in the last 60 or 70 years? Perhaps you will cite Germany circa 1935. Well, we can talk about that.
I would assert that the people in Canada, Australia, and Western Europe all want the restrictions on guns that are in place in these nations.
I know this "defence against tyranny" argument is often invoked in defence of gun rights, but I just do not see how it is plausible in the specific context of 21st century democracies with a long history of stable benign (at least benign in terms of subjugating its own people) government.
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