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While this is rather off -topic, it would be more productive to look at the situation in the US when talking about that. For decades, the supreme court and politicians have taken away more and more rights in the name of security. But these "second-amendment-fetishists" have mostly been quiet about it, since the party doing most of the taking away of rights likes to court them by leaving their favourite right for last, like in the famous Niemöller quote.

So it seems that the usefulness of civilian gun ownership is rather limited when resisting a slow but constant slide into tyranny, like project 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate

> Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate

IIRC, the only guns that were legal there for civilian ownership there were single-shot hunting rifles. If you read the reports, the resistance to the junta had a lot of problems until they could acquire more semiautomatic rifles of the kind many people in the US claim would be useless against a professional military, which is obviously not true due to this counterexample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Defence_Force_(Myan...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/3/myanmars-rebels-...:

> Under Phoe’s command are about 70 men and four women of mixed ethnicities. Many are from the cities. Wielding a mix of rifles and semiautomatic guns, they form a line and salute every time a car enters the camp.

Not by any strong computation method. It is based on method 3 which is "analogous comparison" which just say that we will compare it to a country with near circumstances (and Wikipedia doesn't specify how this is done. It is based on small arms survey [1]. I wouldn't take these numbers to a great length. It is even estimated before this conflict erupted.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180620231909/http://www.smalla...

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