Well that doesn't change the fact that soldiers have turned on people they know for their nation before. You can't always trust the people close to you when things like the night of long knives can happen.
Different country, different circumstances, different times.
Shadows right though, the civil war had less to do with a tyrant government and more to do with who wanted slaves and who controlled what, it was a violent disagreement between two sides of the country.
Hitler gained power with the aftermath of WW1 and how distraught the German people were. The night of the long knives happened because he targeted Jews which no German cared about enough to do anything about as they were led to believe they were the source of all their problems in the first place. He used political loop holes that were there because German society was all over the place at the time to gain
full power.
America doesn't have to worry about a tyrant government, maybe a restrictive one, but living in the west under democracy with systems set up to stop this (excluding the fourth amendment), its ridiculous to base a pro-gun argument on the defense against tyrants, or even an invading force. As it stands, no one is going to fluff with America no matter what they do to anyone, the sole superpower in the world, your military is more then enough to take care of an invasion force considering you put more money into it then the next like 10 military powers combined.
Do you really think a night of the long knives can happen in America? Obama has had enough of Islam and decides to round them all up and execute them, I mean do you
seriously think that is such a likely event that everyone must be armed with a shotgun? That would be what I call paranoia, not awareness, and we all know paranoia isn't a good thing for the general public, especially a general public already armed with guns.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there has been any government in the world that is fully developed and democratic like America is that completely turned on its people. Only ones I can think of are 3rd world and countries with dictators already in power.
Consider this, in the 1940s when America (Canada did it too, mind you) rounded up Japanese citizens into labor/prison camps solely because they were Japanese, do you think if they all had guns that it would've changed anything? I would almost guarantee that it wouldn't have meant plops and more blood would've have been spilled.
I just think the American government is too lenient with gun control in the sense that nothing is truly that monitored, and high powered rifles with bigger clips is not needed for hunting or sport. I think the government is going about fixing the issue in the completely wrong way though, putting ass-backwards policies on the amount of ammo you can have, like that really matters.
As the person before who told his little story about how his house got shot up so he ran into the front lawn and started shooting off his AK. How does that help the situation at all? You are shooting a high powered weapon down a residential street, you can tell me you're the best shot in the world but firing an AK (Notoriously bad for accuracy) in a neighborhood is
never a good idea no matter what happened to you or why you are doing it. That is exactly what is wrong with the whole Fourth Amendment situation.
