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(08-29-2023, 03:34 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The same claim could be made with alcohol.  But cigarettes and alcohol keep people pacified.  Guns allow them to not be pacified.  There's a reason that an armed populace has been illegal throughout history in almost every nation on Earth, because it's far easier to control an unarmed people.  It's honestly the most radical and forward thinking amendment, after the first, in the whole Constitution.

Guns do keep people pacified in a way, at least the concept of owning guns.  I may have a biased view living in rural PA, but a lot of people in these parts are broken down factory workers who were tossed aside by society and watched their kids grow up and move away to get jobs, but they're satisfied because they have guns and they can vote for politicians who will protect their rights to own guns above all else.

This misguided concept that someday we are going to be able to use our god given right to own guns to prevent (insert thing here) keeps people pacified just fine.  We'll know totalitarianism when we see it, and we'll shoot it because we have guns.  And if people come to take our guns, we'll shoot them with our guns.  Why worry?  We have this figured out.