[benjohnson]

Disarming citizes is the frst step to genocide.

I trust my neighbor more than the governemnt we elect - just 60 years ago, America rounded up our ethnic Japanese citizens and stuck them in concentration camps. What would gave happened if the war didn't go so well for us in the Pacific?

[Erwin]

So why wasn't there violent armed response to the American concentration camps back then? Presumably you were at least as well armed.

What kind of event would it take for you to take up arms against the government now? And whom exactly will you be shooting at?

Let's say that somehow a 100% tax on income above $50k gets passed through legislation tomorrow -- who are you going to shoot to revert this? Or perhaps the next president will order an invasion of Canada to take their natural resources (without which many Americans would die: it's either us or them, and voters agree).

In what countries in the world now would you say that access to guns is helping to maintain democracy and liberty? How well are things going for Palestine or Syria?

[benjohnson]

Let us discuss facts and now weird hypotheticals. In the last hundred years, millions of people were killed when governemnts stripped the citizines of their weapons and subsequently murdered them.

To think it "can't happen here" is is not historically unsound - gernocide came frightengly close here in America, and it happened in 'civilised' socialist Germany and communist Russia. The diference that I can find, is we had an armed population tht would have revolted had our Japanese citizens been murdered. To think that we're just better people is hubris.