Comment Re:donor wanted it in a public place, not Google p (Score 1) 59
just another DICEy post
Guns aren't required for a revolution to occur.
See also 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (from the book From Dictatorship to Democracy, available here).
Certainly you can have a revolution with guns but the notion that your little peashooter is what is keeping the most powerful military on the planet in check is pretty much laughable.
Don't underestimate the value of possessing threat capability, even if you're not going to use it. Would Gandhi, King, and Mandela have been equally successful in a society without the simmering potential for all-out race war?
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