Reply #56: The only example you gave where gun ownership supposedly made a difference

[Warren DeMontague]

was the Revolutionary War. That was 2 and 1/4 centuries ago. At that point, the muskets kept in the Minutemen's houses were essentially the same thing the Redcoats were showing up with.

The situation today is vastly different. I agree it's scary but I'm not convinced that individual gun ownership is any kind of realistic bulwark against totalitarianism. In my mind, bulwarks against totalitarianism are things like an informed populace with active minds that question authority. People who don't buy what the state/media/corporation/church tell them but rather search for their own answers. The bottom line is, if everyone collectively gave the finger to the power structure at the same time, people wouldn't need weapons to bring the mother down... That's one reason why they spend so much time trying to keep everyone in this consumer-narcotized haze of crap and bogus news and whatnot.

If gun ownership was really such a threat to the powers who run the Country, don't you think they would have it higher up on the priority list? It seems to me they're much more threatened by women who use birth control.

The most dangerous weapon we have is the knowledge of our own power.