> There's something admirable about the idea that a government would not take away all the guns. The idea that people should not have to give up all of their ability to fight.
This is the glass half full view.
The other view is that gov. doesn’t need to care about people with guns because that long hasn’t mattered in any way. A civil war hasn’t been at stake for a century, and the gov got away with anything it really wanted without ever having to fear for physical unrest. It feels a lot like letting your kid have his plastic knife so he can wield it to you to protest your authority when times come.
‘Not having to rely on police” also means they give themselves the option to just let civilians fight it out when shit hits the fan, which doesn’t look like a great thing to me.
This is the glass half full view.
The other view is that gov. doesn’t need to care about people with guns because that long hasn’t mattered in any way. A civil war hasn’t been at stake for a century, and the gov got away with anything it really wanted without ever having to fear for physical unrest. It feels a lot like letting your kid have his plastic knife so he can wield it to you to protest your authority when times come.
‘Not having to rely on police” also means they give themselves the option to just let civilians fight it out when shit hits the fan, which doesn’t look like a great thing to me.