Sorry if this is not the place for that kind of discussion. I would like to be civil, please. Some people on Reddit were talking about how only dictators would want to disarm people.

Can I have some explanation on your opinion and why? I believe weapons should be banned and that crime should not exist in the first place. My opinion may change, but I believe there should somehow be strict rules regarding crime to reduce the amount of it and just have a place where it will not be worried about.

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    20 hours ago

    decentralized armed restiance is what usually is called terrorist, this can hardly be called winning, this is litteraly what the taliban did basically.

    also beeing hours away from the police in itself would be a probelm already and sure is not usual.

    But even then it already is more likely that you hurt someone with the gun by accident than ever “defending” against any imaginary intruder, if you not live in some lawless wasteland. But then it suddenly is not a problem beeing hours away from any medical service, is it now

    edit: But sure if someone lives in some remote place where it is likely that like wild animals attack a home it is different i guess,

    still in the end i always ask myself what future i would want to look like, and it sure would not be a place where people have guns

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      19 hours ago

      Any State will call an uprising “terrorism”. But it crosses a line and becomes “Resistance” at some point and as public opinion sways, it results in toppled governments.

      Being an hour or more from police isn’t that unusual in the western United States. There’s a lot of land and not everyone lives in cities.

      Yes it’s more likely that I kill myself than stop and intruder or a bear - but that’s my problem, not yours imo (and yes I realize this libertarian view isn’t shared by everyone).

      More than half the people in my region are carrying guns. Yet I’ve never seen one used in public, and rarely see one at all. It’s very low crime here.