On 4-10-2009 4:31, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> If that were the case, then shouldn't all the other countries with 
>> tougher gun control have been replaced by totalitarian regimes by now?
> 
> Many of them have been. The USA is arguably[1] one of the countries with 
> the longest continuous government. (Altho I don't expect that's really 
> due to the gun laws. :-)
> 
> [1] The argument being how you measure "continuous". One can measure it 
> in a way that very few governments are older.

For this argument to make sense one would also need to give at least 
some believable arguments that armed civilians would have *prevented* 
Russia 1917, Germany 1933, and China 1949, to name a few.

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