It's a good thing everyone surrendered their firearms to this same government. Once they know you can't resist anything they can do anything to you. I'm guessing NZ is next now that they've confiscated nearly every firearm they could.
I wonder if you realize you're intimating, even obliquely, that you'd be willing to kill cops, soldiers, and democratically elected officials for performing their duties because you individually don't agree with their decisions.
In other words, you're mad at the government for being too authoritative, so your reaction is to take the most authoritarian step possible and literally murder them for their political beliefs.
And I'm not suggesting that there's never a reason to act violently towards a government, I'm suggesting the people who talk about guns in response to legislation don't understand what it is they're saying.
To use firearms against your government means killing patriots, definitionally. People need to realize this, because they generally don't.
I haven't expressed my opinion about it, I'm just saying that the folks suggesting using firearms to "stop tyranny" very rarely know what they're actually saying.
Some do.
They tend to believe the threat is enough and that they'd never have to act on their threat (rendering it meaningless), or that all of the cops/soldiers will just let them kill the politicians (and killing a politician for a differing political belief is somehow generally okay for these folks).
Guns rights are about defense not coercion per-se. The knowledge that the public is already armed is a deterrent in even trying to create or enforce law that meets this criteria. Thankfully we aren’t there and I hope we never will, but as they chip chip chip away you start to wonder what will be tried next.
You "defend yourself from tyranny" by killing patriots of your own country. That's literally the only way to do it, so when you say things like "defend yourself from tyranny" you are saying, "I'm willing to murder cops and soldiers." because that's who you'll have to "defend yourself from tyranny" against.
There is no way around this, it is the direct meaning of the words and phrases you're using. What you are doing is using the threat of murder to try and get your way in a society.
You wouldn’t be defending yourself from patriots. Patriots wouldn’t take up arms against an oppressed citizenship they swore to protect. You’re logic says the SS were patriots. They were not (even if their government found them to be lawful) and anyone who shot them as they raided an innocent persons home is a hero. There are innumerable examples of this throughout history and I’d argue is the default state of power historically.
Machiavelli wrote hundreds of years ago that liberty can only be secured by the passion of a citizenry. That a paid militia can never secure it in the long run. This type of philosophy is in part what 2a is premised on.
I don’t think most anyone says we need to be armed so we can threaten violence if we don’t get our way on an arbitrary issue. I’m not saying Australia doesn’t pass this particular law if society is armed. But I do think I’d feel better about the direction the government is going if I knew my neighbors were armed.
It doesn't matter what word you use, you're still advocating for the murder of police and military members.
I'm not missing the point because I disagree with you, it'd be nice if you stopped trying to suggest that to be the case.
No matter what a country dictates, for it to mean something, they have to send someone out to your house to enforce it. Guns quite literally put a very hard hold on how far they will go -- maybe not in passing laws, but definitely in enforcing them.
No they don't. Let's be real - Some American cops won't hesitate to shoot a black person, armed or unarmed. The only thing private gun ownership guarantees WRT the state is an escalation of force on its part. Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge? The government will send tanks and flamethrowers at you if they want you bad enough.
As far as Breonna Taylor and police violence against the black community goes, political action and protest seem to have been more effective at raising awareness and putting pressure on government to change policy and culture than the ever-present threat of private guns and populist violence, and changing culture is how you get to police not willing to step over the line.
I'm not saying (since this is bound to be a touchy comment) that black people shouldn't arm themselves or are never justified in defending themselves against police brutality, but I am saying that doing so has no effect on the system at large.