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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
Examples like these is what makes me question the fairy tale that a well-armed citizenry can defeat its own oppressive government. I think the 2nd amendment is most useful for home and self-defense against common criminals, but IMO it's next to useless in fighting your own government. It didn't work out too well for the South, did it?
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The lesson is this: There is no lesson. You cannot generalize. Just as one cannot predict with certainty when a government will become despotic.
Thus, I would argue that protecting the power of the
individual citizen, guided by his own morals and conscience, is a better guarantor of liberty than any number of promises of leaders, laws on the books, constitutions written, and armies raised.