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In reply to the discussion: IT'S. THE. GUNS. [View all]vkkv
(3,384 posts)collapse at the hands of citizens with firearms.
Our gov't will not break down due an overwhelming number of firearm owners revolting a tyrannical gov't.
A tyrannical gov't will have been VOTED IN, ELECTED! It will not die easily at the hands of a bunch of firearm owners, the gov't has tanks, teargas, incendiary weapons and much more. That is WHY i said it is insane to possess a firearm for the specific reason of fighting off a tyrannical gov't - it's a ridiculous idea.
To even make a comparison using "Cuba, Algeria, Indo-China, Vietnam, the Arab Spring" is surreal. That is far too complicated of politics to even go there.
Yes, we are less free due to the possibility of being shot randomly, being in the wrong place, wrong time. We are less free as we install burglar alarms on our houses and cars.
Crime, including gun crime, make us ALL LESS FREE and LESS secure - obviously.
Many Americans keep VOTING for politicians who adhere to strict, conservative social issues like the right to choose, antidrug, more prisons, less money for schools - they are voted in! That is not tyranny - that is the choice of voters in the SOUTH, especially. We are VOTING AWAY are freedoms by politicians who SCARE us into giving away our freedoms in exchange for "security". Again, these 'leaders' are voted in.
I would not own guns on the crowded coast where I previously lived even though I always thought the physics were fascinating. Now that I Live in Sierra Nevada mountains on five acres, I've purchased and learned to shoot a shotgun and rifles shoot quite well at skeet and targets.