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In reply to the discussion: A sincere wish for our DU gun owners: visit Norway! [View all]CTyankee
(63,988 posts)in memorable history, experience with the question you pose in your #1 and #2. The U.S. population has not endured an actual invasion, takeover and its repressions that followed such as what Norway went through. It goes EXACTLY to the question I raise, e.g.: why, immediately after WW2, would that country enact a law that, at least in your estimation, expressly "prohibits home/self defense? I don't have an answer for you, except that perhaps they weighed the benefits of the home/self defense argument vs. the spectre of having people stockpile guns in a way that could threaten public safety. They came down on the side of public safety. Thus, in some Americans thinking, opening the way for repression by the government, if I follow the argument through to its logical conclusion. So my question was: why did such repression not ensue? Because if I hear your argument through to its logical conclusion, it SHOULD have happened.
It's an interesting discussion topic and I look forward to hearing from you!