In US, I think it was the initial intent of 2nd amendment. Arm the population not to resist an enemy or an invasion, but to resist its own government if it endanger a free state.
Well with ±400 million guns circulating nationwide, and one in three people are gun owners, consider how many of them would use them in defense of the current government now. There’s a reason behind allowing 2A to go unchecked, when in the time it was written, it made sense. Now it’s a civilian army that, while keeping the population divided, a not insubstantial percentage will blindly defend any unjust actions this government decides to perpetrate.
This. This kind of unchecked gun permissions only elevate the necessary revolt to a civil war. It doesn’t help fighting against regimes, on the contrary; it makes the fight extremely bloody. Those who wrote it in 17-something couldn’t know that, in the future, it will be the very fascist supporters who are the most heavily armed.
In US, I think it was the initial intent of 2nd amendment. Arm the population not to resist an enemy or an invasion, but to resist its own government if it endanger a free state.
Well with ±400 million guns circulating nationwide, and one in three people are gun owners, consider how many of them would use them in defense of the current government now. There’s a reason behind allowing 2A to go unchecked, when in the time it was written, it made sense. Now it’s a civilian army that, while keeping the population divided, a not insubstantial percentage will blindly defend any unjust actions this government decides to perpetrate.
This. This kind of unchecked gun permissions only elevate the necessary revolt to a civil war. It doesn’t help fighting against regimes, on the contrary; it makes the fight extremely bloody. Those who wrote it in 17-something couldn’t know that, in the future, it will be the very fascist supporters who are the most heavily armed.