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> Breakdown of governance -> authoritarianism is a common sequence regardless of political lean of the new regime;

The second amendment is an uncommon law.

I do hope we never find out who is right on this one…

> The second amendment is an uncommon law

Even better, it’s a human right, one the federal government has been eroding in both the courts of public opinion and the actual courts for decades.

Thankfully in most states it’s still legal to produce firearms, but I suggest getting them and becoming proficient sooner rather than later.

And this remorseless ideology masquerading as logic is exactly why the US is doomed to ultimately fall to political violence.

Last I checked, Europe wasn’t much better on the “political violence” issue.

Owning a gun is not a human right and I will never entertain any supposition that it is, no matter how zealous or contrived.

Can you point out how self-defense is not a human right?

Thing about guns is it doesn't matter who's right or wrong so much as who pulls the trigger first.

Plenty of regimes out there that used guns to install an authoritarian government.