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Originally posted by lordjeebus
I don't think it's an issue of government control where people blindly follow it, but rather that of a government that could easily exercise its tyranical will through force if the populace was unarmed. Firearms won't protect people from things they think they want from a government, but they can help prevent those things they know are really undesirable, like being killed. For instance, the Gestapo would have had a harder time rounding up the Jews if they had a way to effectively defend themselves.
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The Iraqi's have guns too. Too many guns. Did that stop the US army from exercising its will (tyranical or not is a question for further debate) on the Iraqi people? Should the US allow the Iraqi's to have the right to bear arms ( they currently don't.) to defend themselves from the rampant crime there?