Reply #75: Well I would.

[Atypical Liberal]

So would our founders, I suspect.

As the saying goes, "An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject." Since antiquity, arms have been the sign of a free man. In ancient Rome and in Saxon Britain, the bearing of arms was considered the mark of a free man.

Arms gives a man the ability to resort to violence to protect his interests, if necessary, and history has shown it to be necessary many times. A man with no arms has no such recourse.

And I don't think you should assume you know best for them.

All free people are entitled to make whatever society suits them best. But this does not mean they are above criticism. There are societies that have decided that honor killings and genital mutilation are acceptable practices for their societies. This does not mean that the rest of us are not free to point out the flaws in their choices.

The flaw in allowing your society to be disarmed is that you are at the mercy of your government.