| Mr Khan said:
I've said again and again, you don't need guns to topple dictatorships, and when you do use guns to do so, things tend to wind up rather ugly. The "Free Syrian Army" doesn't seem like it's a very nice group of people, and although they've seen a fairly successful election, Libya is still run by leftover militias from the civil war, whereas all of the Eastern Bloc went down peacefully and never had to worry about anything quite like that. America was a special case, because what we had really wasn't a "revolution" per se, but was basically a rebellion, of a local government forcibly severing ties between a global one. And i don't know if you've been to American high school, but do you really want schoolteachers carrying firearms? No no no no no no no. |
When you say that the American Revolution wasn't a revolution, but a rebellion... you're really just getting into semantics.
You don't need guns, no. But if you live in a tyrannical dictatorship, you might want one.
Do I want school teachers carrying guns? Not really. Do I want whole schools completely unarmed? Not really. Do I have the right to tell people that they can't hold guns to protect themselves, no matter what their occupation? Not really.
You might not like guns, but that does not give you the right to disarm everybody else.
