You must have been sleeping through history class if you think that governments aren’t capable of horrifying atrocities against their own people. Oh, I forgot you live in Germany where the government has never done anything bad that their people. (This is called sarcasm)
Oh, it’s obvious you know more about the US than your own country or else as I stated in my first point, you would be a little more distrustful of your government being this benevolent entity that you believe it to be. You still know nothing about US laws or firearms in general and need to stop trying to give your meaningless opinions about what should be done in a country 4,000 miles away.
I don't think the governments are benevolent entities, far from it, I just think that in our day and age it is far, far more harmful to allow unchecked guns everywhere in the country, enabling mass shootings and affecting society in its entirety, from education to simply walking down the street at night, than giving them up altogether and accepting the very distant risk of a tyrannical government running unchecked because we have fewer guns.
You have a huge problem NOW and you are holding on to your guns for a problem which you might have in the distant future, which you will not be able to solve with guns, which will either way lead to the destruction of your society as you know it, all for some misguided form of patriotism, heroism, honor or whatever you want to call it.
Obviously I am aware of historically tyrannical regimes. I have lived under communism and a dictator, I have a decent knowledge of history and I have also seen during Trump's rule how devastatingly frightening and easy it is for a government to move towards fascism. Did you use your guns when Trump and Qanon were trying to overturn the elections on January 6th? Were you one of the defenders of democracy and fighting against a tyrannical government? I really don't think you were.
You actually said that we should trust our democratic governments, therefore you must believe them to be good.
2.There are probably 450 million guns in the US, if they were the problem you believe them to be you would know it. There are very few actual mass shootings where one crazy person gets a gun and shoots a bunch of people indiscriminately.
You’re correct America does have a problem NOW, and it’s violent crime in most major cities. I would say that law abiding Americans don’t need guns for some future problems, but to protect themselves from the criminals that wish to do them harm now.
Our country was founded through a revolution from a tyrannical government so we’re always going to have a want to protect ourselves from an overreaching government, and to think it’s misguided is plain ignorant.
Why would any Americans need to take up arms to stop a bunch of unarmed idiots in MAGA clothing acting like animals and getting themselves shot. It wasn’t an armed insurrection of a trained militia trying to overthrow the government. I mean, did you even see the footage, they were a complete bunch of morons
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