Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why "a free state" as opposed to "the state"? [View all]beardown
(363 posts)How much gun violence am I willing to accept (as in accepting car deaths, booze deaths, parachuting deaths) against not only the low odds of a gun based revolution working out successfully for the nation, but then how much value do I put on this one facet of the RKBA?
You have to have radicalized a good chunk of citizens to prompt a serious revolution. As the revolt matures, usually more and more radical groups take over. It's a roll of the dice and you can come up with a Pol Pot Cambodia, instead of a George Washington America. The Civil War was by far the most devastating event in the history of the US and we are as a nation still seeing many ill effects from it.
There are far more guns and far more CC than ever in the US and yet gun violence is declining. I'm confident that there are achievable measures that can ensure the continued decline without more draconian gun laws. Most of these measures have nothing to do with gun legislation and will advance other democratic values. Paradoxically, reducing gun violence while focusing on non-gun related legislation backed by more RKBA democratic and independent voters.
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