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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Well, the Constitution disagrees. Also, look to past totalitarian governments to see what happens when citizens have no way to defend themselves from tyranny.
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I have a hard time understanding the "defend themselves from tyranny" argument given that the US military has stealth planes, military choppers, grenade launchers, tanks.... any militia that thinks they can storm the White House to "take back the country" would be wiped off earth before they could fire a second round.
If the goal was give the people the ability to violently overthrow the government (which indeed it was at the time of the writing of the constitution) then you would have to give the people the right to own grenade launchers. In which case, 17 people would be a very, very low casualty total for crackpots.