Another simple fact of the matter is that politicians are afraid to outright crap on the populace when it is armed. When people fear their government, there is tyranny; when government fears the people, there is freedom. A very scary possibility, with the current economic condition and legislative BS going on is that a collapse will be allowed to happen, with sweeping "gun control reform" right before/adjacent to the collapse; a very convenient crisis to declare martial law or even "ask" for UN involvement to "control the situation."
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