straightUp wrote:
Ha, ha... you say that after posting numbers with no source. I'd say you're the easiest kind of person for the government to confuse.
Without getting into the numbers that you failed to provide any proof of, I'm just going to point out something that should be obvious to anyone.
World figures are generally compiled from similar statistics across ALL nations. Among the nations of the world there are some brutal dictatorships. We don't have a brutal dictatorship. We brutalize other countries, but our government is not hostile to it's own citizens. So if your 1.2 million figure is based on "democide" as you are suggesting, the reason why our national ratio looks so much better is because our government doesn't have a policy of systematically killing it's citizens. It has noting to do with our freedom to bear arms. Since Americans have no actual experience living in a country that systematically kills it's citizens, it's not surprising that fantasies of holding back a government with small arms can still flourish. But that's all it is... fantasy. If our government actually decided to implement a policy of systematic democide, the only thing our semi-automatics would do is insure those bearing them die first.
This isn't 1789 anymore. The government control capacity has been upgraded significantly from muskets, horses and a few cannons... so if we want to defend ourselves against it today, we're gonna need to do more than sit on a porch with a "legal" shotgun. In the meantime, just be thankful that you and your guns are here and not in one of those countries pushing up the worldwide democide stats.
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You seem to grasp the elements of living in a virtually disarmed country like America... as to the government just slaughtering people, it hasn't happened in America yet... but shortly after the government completes disarming the American public the spiral to government execution will begin...
it has to do with shear numbers, in Germany [if you divide by 4] there were about 150,000 adult Jews. Had the Nazis left each adult with their semi-auto pistol, and reviewing the limited internal conflicts like Warsaw Ghetto, even though the Germans had overwhelming fire power, ammunition, training, and combat experience, the German casualty rate was horrendous relative to the ability of the Jews to resist with limited and home made weapons.
In every age, the government always disarms the public as much as the government can, before it attacks them... start with the Greeks, when the government disarms the people it is simply a matter of time before the government attacks the public ...
the Jewish experience illustrates that had the 150,000 Jews been marginally armed they could have inflicted some 150,000 causalities on the German civilian and military forces, 1 at a time [maybe even achieved a high kill and cripple rate]; now pick any large defeat suffered by the Germans at the hands of Allied military forces and those numbers run some 150 to 300 thousand. So, a minimally armed Jewish resistance would predictably have delivered causalities about equal to a major combat defeat; except it would have been in country, over time, and in addition to all the common running military causalities.
The point is, all governments recognize that inadequately armed citizens are a greater actual threat to the government than totally disarmed civilian populations.
For the current version, see ISLS, when they take over an area using superior fire power they kill whoever they choose and disarm everyone else, after which, they go on killing anyone who acts up or continues to disagree, just like every tyrant government that disarms it citizens - before the government labels : targets people as enemies of the state, hunts them down, and kills them = again, usually after the society has been disarmed using common sense gun control laws, 1 at a time.
The motor deaths are from the UN and the US, as were the gun deaths.
It is actually a pretty good comparative model using the figures of the Governments.
You recognize the issue in America today, that lawlessly, the government has already nearly disarmed the American public, which public, it has educationally dumbed down to a degree that understanding 'we' the American public are already virtually disarmed is beyond that publics comprehension...
Another element you touch on, but fail to address, is that 'we' are so educationally ignorant 'we' never address the issue of the Constitutionally secured, absolute, Natural Right to be and go about armed with the most modern fire power of the day, everywhere, all the time = at home and in public whether the moment is Domestic or Foreign - residence or travel.
Enjoy the day.