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Posted by: Qbix89
Talking about Sweden is an ultrabannable offense.
Posted by: Achronos
Too bad being completely and utterly wrong isn't a bannable offense.
Posted by: haloplayer2kill
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Posted by: Xplode441
Posted by: cameo_cream
This guy seriously just tried to compare Japan to the United States.
Japan: 145,925 sq miles, 125 million people
USA: 3,794,083 square miles, 311,591,917 people
Japan: Not next to an unstable country full of drug cartels on the border.
USA: Has a large amount of gang activity and dangerous cartels moving around on the border.
Yor a genus. A totl gun ban wil wrk.
I don't want to sound condescending but it's about principle...... and I don't think you will ever understand what I mean. Other countries do though.
And you don't understand what it means to be an American. And its because of principles is the reason why im against an all out gun ban, for its against the ideas this great country was founded on.
Guns for the civilians are not just for fun, or self defense against robbers or murders, they could hypothetically be used against a government of tyranny that is severly hurting the people. That was one of the reasons why the founding fathers allowed us guns in the first place.
And though it may be unlikely for the US government to turn to evil, there is always a possibility in the future, no matter how unlikely it is. Of course you could also say that what guns civilians have would never match up to military power. And though that is true, having guns, even weaker ones, is better then having a population with no guns in which tyranny can easily trampler over. Besides if the government became extremely corrupt and totalitarian in the future, i don't think the entire military would fight the civilian population, and having guns could help civilians gain military weapons if the time calls for it.
If your Japanese government ever became a totalitarian government again, that hurt its own people, then you guys would wish to have something to fight back with.You act like it's likely that governments will turn corrupt.
Totalitarian governments don't overpower the populace, they are put in by the people. The brainwashed, patriotic, nationalist people.
Having weapons isn't going to help when the people think they're doing the right thing by putting in this government. It's only much later, when it's already too late to do anything, that the civilians realise that things might not be so swell now.
But by then, they're already firmly under the boot of tyranny, and there's nothing they can do about it.
The reason a society like America, Australia or Japan will never have a tyrannical government is because:
1. we've already learnt from mistakes in the past, and can thus look for the signs
2. The entire populaces of these countries will never be able to agree on anything, so thus if one half of the country wants to vote in ultranationalists, the other half is going to be extremely resistant. Which means that the ultranationalists won't get in apart from by force, and force will just cause a civil war.