The reality is that your safety is, in the vast majority of cases, inversely proportion to the availability and number of weapons. They don't make you safer--and more people die through the combination of accidents and suicides than from actual gun violence. There are VERY good reasons why effective, functional states have a monopoly or …
The reality is that your safety is, in the vast majority of cases, inversely proportion to the availability and number of weapons.
They don't make you safer--and more people die through the combination of accidents and suicides than from actual gun violence.
There are VERY good reasons why effective, functional states have a monopoly or near monopoly on violence... so you don't end up with Somalia, or Afghanistan.. or any of a number of other 3rd-world shithole type of countries.
These militias need to be shut down. They are UNREGULATED. The purpose of the militias was not to oppose the federal or state government, but to support it in the lack of a standing army (an idea which never actually took much hold, in the face of reality). Militias were BIG in the south because they were intended to be used against slave insurrections--and that racist lineage lives on in most of the ones that exist today.
The reality is that your safety is, in the vast majority of cases, inversely proportion to the availability and number of weapons.
They don't make you safer--and more people die through the combination of accidents and suicides than from actual gun violence.
There are VERY good reasons why effective, functional states have a monopoly or near monopoly on violence... so you don't end up with Somalia, or Afghanistan.. or any of a number of other 3rd-world shithole type of countries.
These militias need to be shut down. They are UNREGULATED. The purpose of the militias was not to oppose the federal or state government, but to support it in the lack of a standing army (an idea which never actually took much hold, in the face of reality). Militias were BIG in the south because they were intended to be used against slave insurrections--and that racist lineage lives on in most of the ones that exist today.
Yup