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Originally Posted by Boobzooka
How do you propose that would work when the people who sign up for the military/police are overwhelmingly gun enthusiasts themselves? It's disproportionately the conservative/NRA/red-stater types that are most attracted to these roles in society, so it's a bit like worrying that churches are plotting to take people's bibles away.
Ignoring that paradox, it also could never work on any practical level if you actually try to think though the mechanics of about 2% of the population attempting to forcefully confiscate hundreds of millions of guns from the other 98%. The argument assumes godlike powers that a bunch of boring old elected officials simply don't possess.
Not only is the will not there, but neither is the ability. You can stop stressing about it.  |
I hate to generalize, but... generally speaking the type of people who go in to the military are sheep willing to follow or idealistic people who think they can make a difference. The first group out-numbers the second by far.
Taking away the guns from the sheep isn't the problem you have to deal with, it's taking the guns away from the idealists that is. And of course when you have the sheep on your side, you just need to send them out to get the guns from the rest in the name of patriotism and the common good.