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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
I've never owned a gun. Does that change things at all? Gun ownership is only one factor in the dictatorship issue at all, but it's also clearly one targeted by dictators in the past. Therefore it is a factor which contributes to adding a cost to oppression.
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Sure, but considering that no first world countries with strict gun control have had any issues with dictatorial uprisings in modern history don't you think it's also a factor that can be obviously and immediately dismissed? I also think it's worth pointing out that in very recent history the gun ownership ratio is so skewed along political lines in America that effectively one political side of America is armed and the other is not...how does that figure into the threat on democracy? Tyranny seems just as likely to spring out of that environment than be held back by it, to my eyes.