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Not sure why you seem to think people would need to resist the government rather than, more simply, the relatively small number of billionaires who purchase and
by sp527 3mo ago
Not sure why you seem to think people would need to resist the government rather than, more simply, the relatively small number of billionaires who purchase and pervert it.
- idle_zealot 3mo agoI don't know what you're suggesting. How would widespread gun ownership help with the government being subverted by oligarchs? Vigilante justice? Wouldn't change anything for the better. More paranoid billionaires would just start running things from private compounds and transit between in private jets and armored convoys. That's not a far step from what many do now, and would be extremely powerful social pretext for authoritarian crackdown.
- sp527 3mo ago> Wouldn't change anything for the better. You need to read more history my friend