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Originally Posted by Inthon  If you're worried about the government, buy a gun and increase your income. |
Guns and money? Are you serious? You think that is the answer to oppressive governmental control?
Guns = Fear
Money = Power
How can fear and power ever work against a system based on power and fear?
It doesn't matter which government you are talking about, they all work the same way - either conform to the standard, (get a job, believe what we tell you, follow the rules) or face the consequences.
Here in Australia, owning a gun is illegal. (and always has been unless required for your occupation, farmer, security guard, hunter etc) Not having access to guns saves lives (basically because most people are too stupid to operate one or keep it from being used against them)
That added with soaringly higher standard of public and private
education that has taught us that peaceful protest (albeit slow) is the best way to stand up to a government.
Not with Guns!
Allow me for a second to throw a few figures in
FACT: Comparison of U.S. gun homicides to other industrialized countries:
In 1998, handguns murdered:
* 373 people in Germany (approx pop) 82mil = 1 death in 220,000
* 151 people in Canada (approx pop) 30mil = 1 death in 200,000
* 57 people in Australia (approx pop) 19mil = 1 death in 333,000
* 19 people in Japan (approx pop) 126m = 1 death in 6,331,000!
* 54 people in UK (approx pop) 58m = 1 death in 1,074,000
* 11,789 people in the United States (approx pop) 276m = 1 death in every 23,000 people!
You think more guns and more money will keep the people safe? It's a stupefying concept. How many militia led coups in poverty stricken African nations have led to a stable government system? Can you name one?
Peaceful protest is the best, however if you really want to change a system, you cannot fight it, you have to stop supporting it, you must let it fail.