From a broad causal perspective, the right to keep and bear arms underpins our very ability to engage in discourse on fundamental human rights. It stands as the primary safeguard, arguably making it the most crucial right to uphold by any means—within or beyond the bounds of legality.
You can look anywhere and see what happens when this right is denied. Not good.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @joda 2h
Eh sometimes. Europe and Australia seem to do fine, citizens maintain their rights to speech and protest.
Also even if people in China and Russia (and the US for that matter) have arms, the government has tremendously more. If it comes down to trying to protect your rights against a corrupt government, the government is going to win 100 percent of the time.
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I saw an interesting interview today. The guy was an unconventional warrior. He said F15s and state militaries cannot stand to an armed populace, re: America circa 1776, VietNam and Afghanistan. They all fought off the largest militaries in the world. With only the arms the local citizens had. He claimed that the US military would refuse to fight the citizenry here. We know where they live, their parents and their children. We know where they work and play. You stop F15s by stopping their fuel trucks. We are more than 10 to 1. Check your history.
We would be victorious!
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