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Poll: How convinced are Conservatives that they will one day have to take down the government via militia?
One of the main lines of argument against an assault weapons ban is that they (assault weapons) are the last line of defence against a, potentially, oppressive government. I reason that, since this argument is so often presented, there must be a fairly notable degree of certainty that this situation will, eventually, be more than hypothetical.
Please express your perceived likelihood of having to fend of a mass government oppression campaign within you lifetime (as a percentage).
@Len
Sorry; I'll rephrase the question with less "superfluous," more Len-friendly, words.
Duh...why do conservatives like gunz are dey afraid of da govmint come to poop on dem? will dis happen even? give me number
There, I hope that didn't sound too pretentious.
4 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
They're gonna call you names.
- Bob BLv 78 years ago
While I'm not a conservative, I'd estimate the chances of such an overthrow happening to be very low. I'd put it at effectively 0% for the next few years- beyond that we obviously don't know how things will turn out, but I can't see it becoming non-negligible at any point in the foreseeable future.
It would be difficult to estimate how many conservatives serious expect to do this, but I'd say few really consider it likely- although quite a lot do present an argument of the form "the government never becomes oppressive because it knows we could fight back". If that were true, one would expect the UK and Australia to have far more oppressive regimes than the USA, and yet this isn't the case. The UK has a democracy index about the same as the US, and Australia's is higher than both.
The other argument I usually like to point out is that I've rarely seen the government send in its forces to take our rights away, or citizens use weapons in lawful self-defense, however armed criminals kill people every day. And in addition, supposing the people did decide to use their guns to overthrow the government... well, if I had to bet on the outcome of a fight between the US Army and some rednecks with shotguns, I'd probably have to go with the former.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index - Yousif RLv 58 years ago
Its just a fantasy that they have... and the guns help some people play make believe and feel important and strong...
I honestly have no problem with these people - they are just hobbyists playing militia... kind of like D&D for rednecks - I think they are harmless...
