(February 7, 2017 at 10:20 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It becomes exponentially more difficult when the populace is well armed not only with the guns, but an ideology that justifies their use against such action - even and especially by their own state.
I had moved away from this^ line of thinking for years, but have come back to it. The rise of Trump and the not unrealistic prospect of our checks and balances in the federal government suddenly being done away with have sheared away a certain degree of comfortable naïveté on my part. I really didn't think that what is now happening was possible.
It may very well be that an armed citizenry is the last bulwark against tyranny. So the conservatives who were so worried about Obama or Hillary doing it were wrong about that, but were right about the more drastic reasons for private gun ownership. The great irony is it that it would be them who would aid an oppressive government and possibly even count on leftists being unarmed, easy prey. Strange that.
