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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @l1b3rt4s 31 Oct \ on: Which is your most important human right? Politics_And_Law
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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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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To think that an armed population stands no chance against a heavily armed government is to misread both history and basic logistics.
The U.S., for instance, has over 393 million civilian-owned firearms distributed among a diverse and decentralized populace.
While the government possesses advanced weaponry, it’s constrained by the very nature of governance—its infrastructure, its economy, and its interdependence on that same citizenry.
An indiscriminate approach (e.g., deploying large-scale destructive weapons) would be self-defeating, unraveling both state and society.
Historical resistance movements show that power asymmetry doesn’t render the populace powerless.
The decentralized, civilian model is resilient, not in a head-to-head militaristic sense, but by making domination unfeasibly costly and practically implausible for any centralized force.
This balance is precisely why armed citizens deter tyrannical impulses, not by matching force but by dispersing it.
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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!
We would be victorious!