[Yahoshua]

I can't buy a gun at home. This doesnt make me a slave to the state, send me into the dark ages, or take away any personal freedoms.

The freedom guaranteed by the constitution is that you have the choice to keep and bear arms. And, provided you're at least 18, you have that right as a citizen of the U.S.

The reason I say that the lack of the ability of the people to resist a corrupt government makes them slaves to the state is because governments that deny their citizens the ability to oust an obviously corrupt government, enslave their citizens. Communism, Socialism, Fascism, or a Parliament or Congress that no longer heeds the wishes of the people is a dangerous entity that will eventually become a threat to her citizens (or subjects, if they aren't already).

This has been shown evident time and again in Russia, Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), and currently in Sudan. If the peoples massacred here had been armed enough to prove a formidable force, many of these tragedies could've been avoided. Perhaps, these tyrants could've been deterred.


Isnt "betting your freedoms on your opinion" the idea behind democracy?

An educated body of people making decisions on how to run the country is the foundation of Democracy. And we have failed it bitterly in this day and age. Ideally, the people should be far more involved in the decision-making process and depend less on a beaureaucratic system that is present now.