The US is a free democracy. Nobody is coming to seize your children and beat their culture out of them. Even if they were, or planned to bulldoze your cemetery, the US has a very well trained, staffed and equipped paramilitary police system and full on militarised domestic National Guard. Largely because they are policing such a gunned up population. So thanks for that. If they are coming for your children, a few light arms are not going to stop them, and they have a huge amount of practical experience in making sure that’s true.
Widespread access to firearms simply escalates conflict in society. It escalates personal disputes, escalates interactions with law enforcement, escalates disparities in power between the violent and nonviolent.
Many developed nations, in fact almost all of them, have very low gun ownership rates, yet these abuses you seem to think would be inevitable have not happened in them. It turns out liberal democracy (liberal as in free and equal, not as in socialist) is pretty robust as long as it has solid support by the population. The best way to maintain that trust is the ability to exercise your rights and express your opinions without fear.
> Even if they were, or planned to bulldoze your cemetery, the US has a very well trained, staffed and equipped paramilitary police system and full on militarised domestic National Guard.
The US is a free democracy. Nobody is coming to seize your children and beat their culture out of them. Even if they were, or planned to bulldoze your cemetery, the US has a very well trained, staffed and equipped paramilitary police system and full on militarised domestic National Guard. Largely because they are policing such a gunned up population. So thanks for that. If they are coming for your children, a few light arms are not going to stop them, and they have a huge amount of practical experience in making sure that’s true.
Widespread access to firearms simply escalates conflict in society. It escalates personal disputes, escalates interactions with law enforcement, escalates disparities in power between the violent and nonviolent.
Many developed nations, in fact almost all of them, have very low gun ownership rates, yet these abuses you seem to think would be inevitable have not happened in them. It turns out liberal democracy (liberal as in free and equal, not as in socialist) is pretty robust as long as it has solid support by the population. The best way to maintain that trust is the ability to exercise your rights and express your opinions without fear.