Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>   If that kind of law (ie. all handguns illegal, confiscated without
> >> recompensation) was enacted in the US, it would most probably result in a
> >> civil war.

> Except that a couple of dreaming idealists with pistols and shotguns 
> aren't going to last 7 seconds against the entire might of the US 
> military, the largest army on the face of God's Earth.

  Yeah, sure. The US Army is going to attack its own country and its own
citizens, especially at a large scale, resulting in thousands and thousands
of casualties, millions and millions in property damage and a full-fledged
civil war, plummeting the economy of the country so low that the current
crisis is paradise in comparison. I don't think so.

> Really, such arguments sound very, very silly to me. The US government 
> can do what ever the hell they like, and there's really not especially 
> much the US people can do about it. Just like every other country on Earth.

  There is. They can shoot back.

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