Gun Control: Good or Bad?

[Gilby]

Originally Posted by Zzagg

2- Obama suddenly turns into a megalomaniac dictator and decides to get rid of a specific minority, BMX rider, for instance.

Sudden? No, he was voted into that position. Just the realization by some that he is a megalomaniac dictator may be sudden.

Originally Posted by Zzagg

Is the tiny risk of civil war, or domestic genocide, in the short run less bearable for you than decreasing your death by firearms in the longer run?

Your assumption that gun control decreases death by firearms is at dispute.

Civil war and genocide are not tiny risks. Statism, the belief that government has broad powers to use force against citizens, has killed more people in the last century than the total of all individual non-government murders in the history of the world. When the government's murderers come to your door to murder you, you might have little chance against them, but being armed will give you at least some chance, and the ability of your community all being able to arm themselves and form a resistance will increase the chances that those murderers never make it to your door. Murder is only one of the many crimes of the State, add to that the mass theft, imprisonment, and torture, done by the State and no other source of death and destruction can compare to that of the State. Do you really want to support these criminal organizations in disarming you and your neighbors?

Contrary to many people's ignorance, the US is not immune to civil war, or genocide. It's not a tiny risk, especially now when the US empire is on the edge of collapse.