>>>>   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.

The entire country isn't going to resist. Half a dozen zeolots will, the 
rest will just quietly accept it. Half a dozen zeolots are not difficult 
to control when you have a huge army at your disposal.

>> 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.

Oh, sure, like that's *really* going to work.

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