Your statements are common of folk living in countries with strict gun-control laws who know absolutely nothing about the issue as it pertains to the United States.
Do you honestly believe that the reason that the US isn't being converted into a totalitarian regime as we write is because Joe and his buddies have access to rifles and suchlike and that the government is just too scared of these gun wielding protectors of freedom to do what it really wants to do?
Did someone say that?
Do you really think that those countries where we don't have the same attitude to guns are in some terrible danger of sleepwalking into such a regime because we, the citizenry, aren't armed enough to stop the government doing that?
Did someone say that?
The government (or more accurately those who effectively own the politicians) have far more effective and profitable methods of getting the populace to give them what they want anyway.
As long as those methods continue to work.
It will be eliminated by a a mass of gun nuts who decide that the elected government isn't white, homophobic or right wing enough for their tastes......
Where is your evidence that such a mass of gun nuts even exists? Or that their views on sexuality are tied to their beliefs regarding gun ownership?
It is the gun nuts that you guys need to protect democracy from!!!
Spoken like a true outsider who doesn't have a clue in hell what he's talking about.
Jon
Love your enemies!