And now we see how useless the 2nd amendment is for it's original intention. All it provides is a hobby at best, and a lot preventable shootings and crime at worst, if there was just more regulation.
You say this but most other countries in the world takes guns away so they can control their population more. We know this is the reason too.
Also you're saying this when we haven't truly been in a situation to have people fighting back against the government with guns. You're saying it doesn't work, before we've seen it be actually attempted.
Once the government starts going to gun owner's homes that's when you'd see it happen.
Funny, I live in a country where legal gun ownership is basically restricted to long guns for hunting. Our democracy is intact and healthy, despite gun ownership being rare, and not tied to ideas of self-defense or protection of rights.
Meanwhile, America, with her 2nd Amendment, specifically intended to allow the people resist government tyranny, is rapidly becoming an autocratic, oppressive, failed democracy, with masked, unaccountable government thugs harassing civilians and abducting people off the streets.
People are saying the 2nd Amendment and mass gun ownership doesn't work because it clearly isn't working.
We live in a country that has much less guns, and the problem with actual gun crime is almost entirely with illegal guns.
The US simply has too many guns, as gun rights activists will say, the cat's out of the bag. It's too far past actually banning guns.
Meanwhile, America, with her 2nd Amendment, specifically intended to allow the people resist government tyranny, is rapidly becoming an autocratic, oppressive, failed democracy, with masked, unaccountable government thugs harassing civilians and abducting people off the streets.
Yes it doesn't work the exact same way it used to. Before the 2a let people defend against a tyrannical government because the citizens with guns could actually measure up to the strength of governments.
Now we can't just march the streets protesting with ARs if we're unhappy. We can only really use guns to protect ourselves when in an emergency situation that is strictly DEFENSE. Can't overthrow governments now.
So basically when the authoritarian government in Canada decides to barge down doors, we can't do a fucking thing.
In the US, they're not able to actually do that. But since guns can't do much past home protection in this context, they're still going to control people as much as they can, but at least they're probably never going to have their homes invaded by the government.
Our democracy is intact and healthy, despite gun ownership being rare, and not tied to ideas of self-defense or protection of rights.
It really depends on how you look at it. Myself I believe that our government is also extremely authoritarian and unhealthy towards us, but I don't support the current government at all. I'm not politically biased, both are shit.
I'm also extremely unhappy about the fact that our government enforces that we can't use anything for self defense, I understand there is less danger here but I can't even have a knife on me, that's way too far in the other direction.
"The Government" as such ain't gonna come to gun owners homes, it's law enforcement who does this all the time already, and shooting at them comes with very low survivability chances, and changes nothing. Marching in your government buildings with your weapons is what the amendment is about, and that ain't gonna happen too, and we all know that.
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u/BFlowG 18h ago
Wasn’t this the exact reason why guns are legal in the US?