[Brutha]

The history of governments is largely the history of governments oppressing and enacting genocide on their people.

Do you know what genocide means?
Genocide is about killing people because there not your people.
It's per definition something that government don't do with their people.

At the moment most Americans don't even want that Bush gets prosecuted for being a dictator in the classical sense of the word.
In ancient Greece dictator was the position that allowed one person to take absolute power to rule the country in times of war. That exactly what Bush did.
If the American people would care about living in a democracy that's ruled by laws you would have millions of people demonstrating to bring criminal charges on Bush administration officials.
Evidently the people in America don't seem to care enough about the fact that they lived in a dictatorship to do anything.
They rather care about the economy, the war in Iraq or healthcare but nearly nobody cares democracy enough to demonstrate to bring charges on those Bush administration officials.

Every American who doesn't has no business saying that they are defending democracy.
You don't have to defend yourself against the specter of the government but against the big group of Americans who don't demonstrate for living a state of laws.
Everyone of them is as morally responsible for letting democracy die as the people in Germany who supported Hitler.

Guns haven't prevented Bush from ruling as dictator and are therefore worthless in defending democracy. There are also worthless for bringing Bush to justice.
If you would get 20 million people demonstrating every week for criminal charges for Bush you would get those charges.
You would only need under 10% of American who support democracy for such a thing.

But there aren't 10% left who actively support democracy.

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.

Failure of the state means that those group who have the most weapons will get into control.