Hilarious!
This isn't about "armed insurrection". The way one prevents insurrection is keeping the citizenry happy - being responsive to their wants and needs, not by doubling down on taking even more from them when what you have already taken is what is fertilizing the unrest.
So, if it's not really about armed insurrection, then what could it possibly actually be about?
It's about power, and control over others. Pure and simple. It's about running the lives of others, others who are already in a bit of a mood over all of the control and running of their lives that has gone before.
If it were about armed insurrection, they'd do more to mollify the disgruntled, rather than trying to take even more from them and piss them off even more.
What they are failing to take into account is that a dissatisfied people will ALWAYS find the means to revolt, just as people hell-bent on violence and mayhem will always find a means of creating them. Just ask a Londoner how that disarmament thing is working out for preventing violence. Or Chicago. Or Los Angeles. Or New York. Or Philadelphia. Or Washington, DC. Or Baltimore. Or... pick a city. Wherever these policies are emplaced, no one gets any safer. Matter of fact, everyone gets LESS safe, because now they are unarmed in the face of criminal onslaughts.
So, it's not about "armed insurrection" nor "safety and security". But it IS about maintaining power and control... just a power and control that none of the citizens want.
Neither is it about "saving our democracy" - it's about the exact opposite of that, disempowering the very people that any "democracy" would spring from, get it's power from. It's about disenfranchising those very people who would actually BE the "democracy".
It's about creating slaves, serfs, and peons for the ruling elites.
Just like any other feudal system.
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This isn't about "armed insurrection". The way one prevents insurrection is keeping the citizenry happy - being responsive to their wants and needs, not by doubling down on taking even more from them when what you have already taken is what is fertilizing the unrest.
So, if it's not really about armed insurrection, then what could it possibly actually be about?
It's about power, and control over others. Pure and simple. It's about running the lives of others, others who are already in a bit of a mood over all of the control and running of their lives that has gone before.
If it were about armed insurrection, they'd do more to mollify the disgruntled, rather than trying to take even more from them and piss them off even more.
What they are failing to take into account is that a dissatisfied people will ALWAYS find the means to revolt, just as people hell-bent on violence and mayhem will always find a means of creating them. Just ask a Londoner how that disarmament thing is working out for preventing violence. Or Chicago. Or Los Angeles. Or New York. Or Philadelphia. Or Washington, DC. Or Baltimore. Or... pick a city. Wherever these policies are emplaced, no one gets any safer. Matter of fact, everyone gets LESS safe, because now they are unarmed in the face of criminal onslaughts.
So, it's not about "armed insurrection" nor "safety and security". But it IS about maintaining power and control... just a power and control that none of the citizens want.
Neither is it about "saving our democracy" - it's about the exact opposite of that, disempowering the very people that any "democracy" would spring from, get it's power from. It's about disenfranchising those very people who would actually BE the "democracy".
It's about creating slaves, serfs, and peons for the ruling elites.
Just like any other feudal system.
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