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Guns, voting, and rebellion.?
One of the arguments I hear from some of the gun crowd is that the citizenry should be armed, should they ever have to stand up to their own government. Then, the common rebuttal is that we would not stand a chance, opposing them, now, anyway and that anyone who thinks otherwise is foolish. However, many of the same people making this rebuttal probably have at least some faith in the system. Hypothetically speaking, if you didn't think change was as simple as checking a D or R on election day, and that a coup was the only real way things would ever change, might your opinions change somewhat? As in maybe empathizing more with people who forseen the potential need of a coup one day more than people who shamed you for not doing your "civic duty" in voting? I know I'll get blasted for this. Just a hypothetical question.
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- ?Lv 67 years ago
At this point there's not much chance of US citizens resisting either an invasion or a government bent on subjecting the people to a North Korean type dictatorship. But looking at history there have been plenty of times in history where things went sideways and unarmed people have been forced to fight with what was at hand until they could arm themselves. Spartacus to the American Revolution, French, Mexican, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Cuban and the Syrian situation come to mind.... some didn't turn out as well as we would have liked, but that's the nature of revolution. The point here is that you can't assume that what's happening today won't change in the future. So... keep your powder dry and don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
- BobLv 77 years ago
I think the question you have to ask is this: The price of an armed US is a constant high level of gun crime and murder, when compared with the rest of the civilised world. While guns continue to be readily available then there will always be school and cinema shootings, armed robberies, teenage gun suicides and accidental deaths.
Is this a price that US society is prepared to pay in exchange for the very slight possibility of citizens being able to use their guns in the face of the best armed and and best trained armies the world has ever seen to rise up against a totalitarian government?
