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Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by sparrish on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:21PM (#28394771)
All this made possible because they disarmed the populace first.

The second amendment is holding this back from happening in the US.

Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:18PM (#28399435)
How is your second amendment helping you deal with NSA, illegal no-fly lists, police brutality, etc? It doesn't, its just a power fantasy. There are plenty of 'disatmed' countriss with just as much or more liberty
Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by amanaplanacanal on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:28PM (#28399784)
Yeah. People talk about second amendment solutions, and I wonder exactly what line needs to be crossed for that to come into play. My guess is nothing will ever be egregious enough. It's all BS.
Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by zepto on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:29PM (#28400106)
Not knowing where the line is is itself a line.
Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by nickthemagicman on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:41AM (#28402149)
Second Amendment gives the population a chance against the government.

No guns the population has no chance and the government can do anything they want.

Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by lagadu on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:42AM (#28400485)
Ah, the famous second amendment, meant to allow the people to prevent a hostile takeover of the government.

Funny thing is, all the people who are most fervent about it are the people who think trump won the election and yet they lay down and took the loss, the exact thing that the amendment is supposed to prevent, like impotent little children.

What a very effective amendment! /s

Re:How long can a democracy maintain emergency limits and st... by Theory5 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:24PM (#28399083)
No, it's not.