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The best way to undermine a democracy is to get rid of people's ability to defend themselves.
by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
The best way to undermine a democracy is to get rid of people's ability to defend themselves.
- ents 10y agoPlease explain.
- IslaDeEncanta 10y agoI think it's pretty obvious.
- labster 10y agoI don't know, people have plenty of weapons in the U.S., and the person who won the presidency by 3 million votes still didn't take office. Yet in the U.K. where few people have guns, the people voted for Brexit and they will get one. It sounds like gun ownership level is inversely proportional to democracy level to me.
- angersock 10y ago> the person who won the presidency by 3 million votes still didn't take office Those constituents were, statistically and historically, in far greater support of gun control and far less armed. So, it actually kinda illustrates your point--what're they going to do, wave their lattes in the air angrily at the trumptruppen?
- labster 10y agoYup, that's basically the plan. It's going to be a messy four years. Get ready to get some coffee and milk stains out of your clothes. If there's one thing we know about Nazis, it's that they're obsessed with wearing snappy uniforms.
- emusan 10y agoThat's a pretty serious abuse of correlation...
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoBut, you must admit that context of the post replied to it was very well put. Formula: 1. Outrageously bold claim 2. Obviously ridiculous and nonsense claim of correlation 3. Things are rarely as simple as some few-word slogan.
- IslaDeEncanta 10y agoI don't think it's outrageous to say that a few people with weapons can command many people without weapons.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI don't, personally, recall the last US election that was settle by a shoot-out. It seems most modern democracies get by fine without civil wars. Or: what, exactly, are you suggesting.
- IslaDeEncanta 10y agoI'm suggesting that a fascist dictatorship is harder to establish in a place where everybody is armed.
- brobinson 10y agoThe presidency has never been decided by popular vote in the ~225 years the office has existed
- petre 10y agoWell yes, but then if people own handguns, the police has automatic rifles. At least in the US they do abuse using the firearms, especially when the perpetrators are black.
- IslaDeEncanta 10y agoThere's no doubt that the state always has more power than individuals, but the point is that the state will not have more power than all the individuals put together.