History paints a far darker narrative than the one you tell. You are falling victim to Cognitive in which you are shortcutting that data because, the data is so

History paints a far darker narrative than the one you tell. You are falling victim to Cognitive in which you are shortcutting that data because, the data is so nebulous you are only looking at your experience as the whole set instead of a subset. As well you are falling victim to Confirmation Bias as your personal experience (of a stable peaceful government) deviates from the norm, but you are assuming it is the norm. Outside of the first world the world is still a very violent place and it has really only been peaceful in the first world for the last 60 or so years. As recently the late 30's Spain was locked in a bitter civil war in which is government was oppressing and killing it's citizens. You and I where not born then and did not experience it, but on the scales of time that was 5 minutes ago. So the answer to your question is yes the data spell out that you should be distrustful of government, where we are at right now is an anomaly and historical data says governments are a temporal thing, it's just that they, in general, span multiple lifespans and you and I got really lucks, but our life span could bridge the fall of that government. Now things may have changed this time and we may have evolved but those are long odds looking around the world and the current political and financial climate. Again going back to the historical data if it does not rise and fall, then this will be the anomaly and mark a new epoch in civilization. And that very well could be, but no bookie in Vegas would take those odds based on the numbers. You don't like guns and that's cool, but don't try and justify it by mocking another persons perspective on the subject by calling it a fantasy, especially when the data supports that persons position. There are a lot of valid reasons to tighten regulations on guns, but assuming that the government does not need an offset is not one of them.