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[Brian37]

The only people who should have guns are the ones in the military.

Why should the military have guns?

That has to be the dumbest fucking question I have ever heard.

The evolutionary reality is that our species has always formed groups, and has always competed over resources. It would be awesome if no nation on the planet had a military or weapons. But because our species sets up artificial construct in the form of political and religious and economic ideologies, humans will compete over those resources with weapons. 

It is an unfortunate reality in our species, yes I do want a military to protect me from theocracies like Iran and despots like Kim Jong Un. A military is what defeated the monster Hitler.

The problem has always been our species lack of understanding of our local tribalism. We defend what is local. And since I don't see that changing anytime soon, damned right I want a military. Not because we should be using it as a default, but because there are political and religious rivals who would run us over if we didn't have one.

If you want to seek to reduce the need to use military, then what we should do is address global corporatism which every nation invests in and gets rich off of banks, oil and weapons by using political, economic and religious ideology to divide our species.