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No, the founding fathers thought the best defense against tyranny was an armed public as well as armed militia, with all this going on, have you ever heard a single word from any militia? Gee I wonder why?
The self-styled thought of gun owners as the Col. Jessup-ish firewall between democracy and tyranny by the government in modern society is an absurd NRA-peddled talking point. Do you really believe the Government and it’s military are dissuaded from enslaving you because you own a few guns? Complete hogwash which, incidentally, has been disproved by the fully-functioning non-tyrannical French and British societies.
Do you believe that a citizen should shoot a police officer if that officer tried to enforce an unlawful order? You think the Founding Fathers would have wanted the nurse in Utah to pull out a handgun and try to blow away the now-fired police officer who tried to arrest her? Or perhaps the rule of law, rather than guns saving her from tyrannical oppression by a government agent, won the day in the end.
The self-styled thought of gun owners as the Col. Jessup-ish firewall between democracy and tyranny by the government in modern society is an absurd NRA-peddled talking point. Do you really believe the Government and it’s military are dissuaded from enslaving you because you own a few guns? Complete hogwash which, incidentally, has been disproved by the fully-functioning non-tyrannical French and British societies.
Do you believe that a citizen should shoot a police officer if that officer tried to enforce an unlawful order? You think the Founding Fathers would have wanted the nurse in Utah to pull out a handgun and try to blow away the now-fired police officer who tried to arrest her? Or perhaps the rule of law, rather than guns saving her from tyrannical oppression by a government agent, won the day in the end.
If the government wanted to enslave you, they have the might to do it, no matter how many guns you own. The rule of law, and society's belief in it, is what keeps the government at bay. If the rule of law fails, then this country will disintegrate even if you have a cache of arms in your basement.
The more I think about it, the more that the "we must have guns to defend us from the US Government" line of thinking becomes more ridiculous. In essence, you are advocating vigilantism and asking to empower an armed, unelected band of citizens to make subjective, unilateral decisions about what constitutes "tyranny" and thereafter start open warfare against our elected government.
Who are you to define "tyranny"? Is the ACA a form of tyranny? Should one start shooting IRS agents if they attempt to enforce the individual mandate penalty? What if the Second Amendment is repealed, laws are passed outlawing guns, and the police come to take yours and compensate you monetarily for them? Is that tyranny? Can you shoot the police to keep your guns?
The premise that individuals need guns so that they can make subjective decisions about government tyranny and act violently against the government in such an event sounds to me like the opposite of democracy. It sounds like giving the green light to domestic terrorism.
We are protected from tyranny by the belief in system of collective societal belief in the rule of law and the legitimacy of (and our participation in) the electoral system.
If the government wanted to enslave you, they have the might to do it, no matter how many guns you own. The rule of law, and society's belief in it, is what keeps the government at bay. If the rule of law fails, then this country will disintegrate even if you have a cache of arms in your basement.
The more I think about it, the more that the "we must have guns to defend us from the US Government" line of thinking becomes more ridiculous. In essence, you are advocating vigilantism and asking to empower an armed, unelected band of citizens to make subjective, unilateral decisions about what constitutes "tyranny" and thereafter start open warfare against our elected government.
Who are you to define "tyranny"? Is the ACA a form of tyranny? Should one start shooting IRS agents if they attempt to enforce the individual mandate penalty? What if the Second Amendment is repealed, laws are passed outlawing guns, and the police come to take yours and compensate you monetarily for them? Is that tyranny? Can you shoot the police to keep your guns?
The premise that individuals need guns so that they can make subjective decisions about government tyranny and act violently against the government in such an event sounds to me like the opposite of democracy. It sounds like giving the green light to domestic terrorism.
We are protected from tyranny by the belief in system of collective societal belief in the rule of law and the legitimacy of (and our participation in) the electoral system.
This may be true, but the purpose of the 2nd is to make such a thing so costly that it would not be worth it.
Every man defines tyranny in his own way...... if enough people agree that it is happening then there is some type of response.
I'm sure King George would agree.
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed;
---Thomas Jefferson
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