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Yet you believe you have the solutions to all mans ills by watering down individual choice and placing it in the hands of governments?Have you met people?
Like actual real people.
I empathise with your dismay of the human condition but your solution is to take the problem away from a fairly insignificant portion of tiny tyrants and place it in the hands of the biggest tyrant. No thanks.
I share your mistrust of the more insidious parts of human nature, but where is that condition more amplified than in the halls of government?
Arming governments is even stupider.Arming people is just really stupid.
If I understand your position, you believe in an armed society to protect from the government turning tyrannical,
It would certainly be more effective than an unarmed populace attempting to protect itself from a tyrannical government.
......and for reasons of personal liberty (that everyone should have a choice or a 'right' for the liberty to own a gun).
I also believe in every humans right to own a carving knife.
Where do you draw the line? What weapons should we be given access to? Should any weapons be banned or restricted?
The line is drawn when force is utilised to oppress the individual personal liberty of another human being.
Bombs? Nerve gas? Tanks? Nukes?
Bombs - I'd guess most bright high school kids could make one.
Nerve Gas - I'd guess the average person would kill themselves making the stuff.
Tanks - Why not?
Nukes - I think that is a little impractical for the layperson without a degree in nuclear chemistry, an enrichment plant and a functioning laboratory.