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I think we're enchanted by the possession of the guns themselves more than the actuality that they keep us free from tyranny.

That word is thrown around a lot these days. Tyranny. Yet a very, diminishing few alive today have an understanding of what tyranny is and what a true dictatorship can, and will, do to its population.

Let's start with everyone's favorite: Hitler. What did he do? Killed a fuckton of people. How? He was voted in, on the back of a very violent, and very effective political machine. Do we have that here? Yes, the extreme right that threaten violence at the very mention of someone passing laws to protect the rest of the country. A very small portion, and totally without leadership, thank whatever gods you believe.

Next favorite? Stalin. This guy was bad. With the exception of killing Jews, I think he was worse than Hitler, and with a far greater potential for being a fuckhead than Hitler ever could have. What did he do? He murdered millions of his own brave, ignorant kin. Why? Because he could, and because who was going to stop him?

Another modern dictator? Saddam. Did as bad as he could get away with. Raped, murdered, fucked up his own people. Why? Because he could.

And there are dozens more that we could throw into the pile, and that's just in our time (South America, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, everything in Africa, eastern Europe, that little place called China), but bringing out example after example does nothing but point out that we do not live in a dictatorship, or even the beginnings of one. Should we be ever vigilant? Fuck yes. Roosevelt, that man who without doubt helped keep Europe from getting skullfucked by everyone with an army, did everything he could get away with to limit our rights. Why? Because it made his job easier. He took away right to trial, he also made it perfectly legal for the government to take what was ours without recourse. They could spy on us, jail us, kill us, without reason. And we didn't have NEAR the amount of guns right now, but that wasn't a dictatorship, and not because every asshole had three AR-20fucks. That was what we let ourselves get into in the blind name of security.

Think of history, if you can remember. If you can't, either because you didn't give a fuck or were too stoned/drunk/high to remember, then get wiki on some shit. Dictatorships develop out of a void, often times due to severe economic hardships. When you're fucking starving, an asshole with a gun and a plan who's telling you how to live is better than a powerless government who probably got you into that spot in the first place. Hitler, Stalin, probably even Ghandi and Jesus, share that same quality. Right man, right time, and a country full of hungry, sad, sore people tired of working for nothing.

So, should we be worried about a man in an office who isn't even trying to pass laws to limit your guns (Congress does that, and we just let the same old fucksticks keep their jobs year after year) or the cold fact that we stand to spend ourselves into a pit so deep no one will be able to, or want to, bail us out of?