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Originally Posted by lanceuppercut";p="
How would the public being armed stop the government doing anything?
One problem gun-control advocates have is that guns are not useful for anything except killing things. You don't have to have a gun to kill someone, but I think the gun helps.
Gun crime is a lot lower in Europe than the States precisely because there are less guns and they are less freely available, the simple fact being that most people cannot be trusted to own and operate a firearm responsibly.
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This is the premise of Socialism, Marxism and Fascism. The citizenry is too dumb to handle it's own affairs. Humanity at large is far, far to stupid to defend itself, think for itself, handle it's own money or raise it's own children, so the State
tm needs to do it!
That problem arises here: Who is the State
tm? The State
tm consists of members of the very same humanity at large that is too stupid to handle it's own affairs! If people are too stupid to do it, and the government is people, why are they better suited to run our lives than we are?
Why does a forty year old German business man honestly believe that an Eighteen year-old kid with three months of training in the army is more suited to own and operate a firearm than he? Because he is raised from birth believing in the Myth of the State's superiority to the Individual. And this Superiority concept is a fallacy.
Firearms do allow a populace to resist an evil government, and they allow the people to defend themselves. If firearms were not a taboo subject, children raised around them would never get into accidents in the first place.
The reason the myth of State Superiority is advanced is to enable the control of an absolutist regime.