[Tyrannosaurs]

Another revolution that worked: the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia - non-violent, no guns. And another: the Egyptian revolution last year. Or the 2003 revolution in Georgia. Or 2005 in Kyrgyzstan, and I could go on.

All successful, all non-violent, all more recent than the American Revolution.

Seriously, if you think you need guns to defend yourself, you're basically saying you live in a state which has failed worse than communist era Czechoslovakia or Egypt under an effective dictatorship.

[taylodl]

So how are things going in Syria?

[Tyrannosaurs]

Considerably more dead on both sides than during the non-violent revolutions.

Just think, if you'd given the Egyptian's guns that could have been a bloodbath too.