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Originally posted by peeweesbigbong
a REALLY good reason to own a gun is because a population without guns is a population that can be easily controlled by the government.
if the population cannot defend themsleves then they are putting themselves at risk to be taken advantage of.
just look at some of histories meanest leaders (look at the obvious first of all, i.e Hitler, Mao) they took away the right to bear arms from their people before starting their massacres.
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I disagree. I live in a country where guns, though not illegal, are heavily controlled. People in cities don't own guns. Nobody owns assault rifles, save for the defense forces. Unless you're a cop, handguns are more or less unheard of. In fact, the only guns you commonly see are those carried by police officers and hunting rifles owned by farmers, who have a real need for them to control 'roos.
I don't know how many gun homocides we have here, but I'd be surprised if it was more than 20 a year, in the whole country.
The government finds us no easier to control than the US government finds its citizens. Just because we can't shoot people we don't like, doesn't mean we will blindly obey them.