[scoopertrooper]

> It’s the same reason I support the Second Amendment [...] would make things a hell of a lot harder for any would be tyrants.

Yet, somehow the rest of the democratic world spins around just fine without millions of semi-automatic weapons sloshing about.

[dcolkitt]

Most of the democratic world fell under fascist and/or Marxist-Leninist totalitarian regimes within living memory.

There’s only four independent democracies uninterrupted over the past century. Two have widespread civilian firearm ownership.

[scoopertrooper]

> Most of the democratic world fell under fascist and/or Marxist-Leninist totalitarian regimes within living memory.

Are you suggesting that a few extra light weapons floating around in the 1930s would have stopped the Nazis and Soviets steam rolling across the Europe?

Are you suggesting civilian firearm ownership somehow prevented the Nazis from skipping over the Atlantic and taking over America? Why did America waste all that money on submarines and aircraft carriers, when they had such deep reserves of plucky gun enthusiasts at the ready?

I'm so confused by your comment.

[maxqin1]

Based on your numbers, owning guns has no affect or even a negative affect.

[dcolkitt]

100% of democracies with widespread civilian firearm ownership remained democracies during the entirety of the past century. Less than one in ten democracies without widespread firearm ownership did. How is that a negative effect?