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Originally Posted by timalkin
Tyrannical governments all over the world, throughout history, have disarmed the population and committed genocide. Hundreds of millions of unarmed, defenseless people have been killed just in the 20th Century alone. No amount of protesting, marches, or sit-ins saved these people.
Yet I'm supposed to believe that a firearm would do nothing for me? Not even protect my life, much less prevent a government from committing genocide? That's a turd that I'm unwilling to swallow. The Founding Fathers must have been full of shit to believe that firearms in the hands of citizens would prevent tyranny. What would they know anyway? It's not like they ever lived under an oppressive government or created a system of government that has lasted for more than 200 years and provided countless millions of people from all over the world with freedom.
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Inflamed rhetoric and patriotism are not substitutes for reality.
Guns have been used just as often to overthrow democracy as to sustain it, and unarmed populations have been able to sustain democracies just as well as armed ones.