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Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This idea that the populace needs to have guns in case the government wages war against them is completely ludicrous. A group of people with significant military training are going to utterly annihilate an even larger group of people without such training, even if they all carry pistols. You act as if playing Gears of War qualifies you to defend against a tyrannical regime. What I find most hilarious is that you listed Rwanda among your examples, yet you fail to mention how the RPF utterly curbstomped the genocidaires because they had superior equipment and training. The RPF forces numbered about twenty thousand, compared to hundreds of thousands of genocidaires.

Also it would have been pretty much impossible for tutsi civilians to form some kind of organized force when they were singled out and killed at roadblocks, and ambushed in their own homes. One family barricaded in their own house and armed with pistols isn't going to stop hundreds of people with machetes and AK47's. You fail to realize that a lot of people didn't know what was even going on, acting as if they could band together and defeat a more well-armed force that's ten times their size is absurd beyond question.

By the way, none of the conflicts you brought up occurred in democracies, so I'm not sure why you even mentioned them. This thread is about gun control in the U.S., not gun control in nazi germany. I'm much less afraid of the former committing genocide against its own people.

This thread isn't about gun control at all, go back to the OP. Also, there are already replies to what you've mentioned above earlier in this thread (regarding the civilians vs government military).