We will not live in a free society if we continue to allow gun access to anyone with a pulse.

[Crunchy Frog]

77. I completely agree with you, and don't think most of your respondents

understand what it is that you're actually saying.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the most far right, reactionary promoters of American tyranny are also the strongest proponents of unrestrained access to firearms.

The fact is that a more heavily armed society will be more easily tyrannized, justified by the need for "security" in light of all the gun violence. It's already happening with the increasingly militarized, shoot first-ask questions later, law enforcement. Everything that they do gets justified by the fact that anyone they encounter must be presumed to be armed, and they can therefore claim to be legitimately "in fear for their lives".

I predict that it's only going to get worse, and that further aspects of our lives and freedoms will continue to be restricted in the name of security, and accepted by a terrorized population. Just what the RW wants, and tolerated by people who are completely oblivious to all liberties apart from that one.

A heavily armed society doesn't lead to freedom from tyranny. It leads to a terrorized and easily malleable society, ripe for exploiting by the most authoritarian elements, who don't mind people being heavily armed because the machinery of the state is vastly more powerful than the biggest arsenal that you could possibly acquire.

These are my thoughts on the matter. I won't be bothering to respond to any counterarguments, as I've already seen them all on here, ad nauseum, and I simply don't care to engage with them anymore.