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It is all well and good until they stop functioning. Guns empower people to not sit down and just take it when governments consistentenly abuse their power ove
by meddlepal 7y ago
It is all well and good until they stop functioning.
Guns empower people to not sit down and just take it when governments consistentenly abuse their power over a long enough period of time.
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- orf 7y agoSaying “it’s all fine and dandy until the democracy falls down” is a pretty circular argument to the fact that America stands uniquely in the democratic free world in its liberal control of guns, amoung peers who have lasted several times longer than America's total existance. In fact it’s a completely nonsense response, and one might point out that America is also fairly unique in its seemingly ill-functioning and over reaching government. Nobody reached for their guns after any of the post-9/11 constitution slashing, nor over any of the hundreds of documented abuses of power, corruption or citizens-United bribery that happen all of the time. But sure, if cradling your firearms at night imagining a time when you gloriously rise up in unison against some big-brother style figurehead (while your other freedoms are eroded bit by bit) is an effective coping mechanism I guess that’s a good thing for the controlling oligarchy. I can see why the promote it so heavily.