Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ... by nostrademons on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:08PM (#21127824)

And yet people did possess firearms - it was pretty necessary when living an agrarian life on the frontier, then as now.

Curious how you think that would alter the conclusion? If anything organized resistance would be more effective then, because you already had state militias and rough technological parity with the military.

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Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ... by diminoten on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:14PM (#21127905)

I'm not sure what your point is... both the Union and the Confederacy were "well regulated" armies which issued weapons to their soldiers, in great numbers, and even by then military technology was beginning to outpace simple farm muskets.

I feel like you're treating all guns as equal, when that wasn't true in the civil war and is completely not true now.

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