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Originally Posted by Botnst
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.
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I'll take a well-trained and equipped professional military over an untrained mob of armed citizens as the better guarantor of my liberty. If what you're saying were true, there'd be no need to have a military as the armed citizenry would be enough to guarantee freedom for everyone. That might be an interesting experiment, but one I would not want to participate in. The thing is, there's much more to the power of the individual citizen than how many guns he owns.
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