Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651
Except that the people who had guns then could just as easily kill with guns then as now -- there is no change in that. Their reasoning is that at any point a Democracy can devolve into a dictatorship as soon as the new popularly elected leader decides to use secret police to defend his power -- as has been proven in many countries over the last few hundred years. At that point neither passive reason nor a foolable ballot box will succeed in defeating the armed secret police -- only an armed responsible citizenry can do that. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and get wise.
I'll make sure to hop into my time machine and tell Gandhi that his whole unarmed rebellion and civil disobedience has no chance in getting rid of the British. The people who seem to fear the government and it's armies overlook one very important fact. Where in hell do those armies come from? They come from the citizenry of this country. If the government were to order it's soldiers to conduct wholesale infringement of it's populace, against those soldier's own families and relatives, and friends, how far do you think it would get when the soldiers themselves rebel? It's not like it hasn't happened before.