Unrein
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I find the "we need to be armed to stop our tyrannical government!" argument to be a bit bizarre. I assume if we had to physically overthrow the government as suggested, we as civilians would be fighting the US military? Isn't it interesting that this argument implies that it's an imperative that we as civilians be capable of physically defeating our own standing army, but the same people who make this argument also tend to argue that our standing army needs to be the most bloated, god-devouring, invincible wrecking force the universe has ever seen? What's the point of making the argument from 'stopping tyranny' if you simultaneously support making that very tyrannical thing armed to the teeth?