ah so the ruling class with be armed, while the rest are not. sounds great

That’s already the reality. By definition the ruling class rules, this of course includes armed forces. All the privately owned weapons in the united states are a joke compared to the weaponry possessed by state.

If private weapons were a threat to the state, they would not be allowed.

How do you envision that going down, exactly? The army as a whole is generally pro-gun ownership and took an oath to defend the people.

General: "Commander, send the tanks to blast the protesters. They're exercising their constitutionally protected right to carry arms, for gods sake!"

Commander: =|

Once the first bullet flies from the side of commoners nobody will be asking about motives.

And it's so easy for the first bullet to fly when there are so many guns around.

>> And it's so easy for the first bullet to fly when there are so many guns around.

As evinced by all the people attacking the military all the time?

Read this: https://www.amazon.com/1861-Civil-Awakening-Adam-Goodheart/d...

This is exactly what happened during the civil war. Union army was reluctant and refused to engage in combat, letting Confederate forces withdraw instead. Some yahoo ambushed a well known Union Officer and killed him to support the confederacy and the gloves came off.

Imagine how quickly knowledge of this sort of incident would spread in todays world vs 1861.

So far we've freed ourselves from the Brits and ended slavery.

Looks pretty good so far.

not sure if serious :/

For now only occasionally. But if there's large unrest about this us vs them mentality will kick in super quickly.

So we should go ahead and do thought policing? That continues to be a hard sell.

No, you should just dig a large hole in the ground and toss your guns in there and burry them. That's what other countries did and it worked for every single one.

Don't be scared about tyrrany. You already have it in the form of two party system ruled by the homogeneous clique of oligarchs.

Not to mention all of the weaponary held by security forces hired by multimillionaires and billionaires.

Sure, create an environment for black market cartridges. Turn every hunter into a criminal. Forget standards on these black market cartridges so they are blowing up in people's guns.

All those things you listed are very bad and it's actually super scary how they are all together still less bad than whole country drowning in abundant, cheap and safe ammunition.