Someone's bad at math. The government can concentrate force against a
single law breaker or small group easily. If the whole population is
armed and loses faith in the legitimacy of the government's actions the
police will be exchanging their uniforms for civilian cloths and taking
their guns with them.
Bob W wrote:
> Bob Sullivan wrote:
>
>> I've heard that Boris's Russian countryman, Alexander Solzenitzen,
>> thought the gulags would have been a lot emptier in their day if the
>> secret police were uncertain which of their middle of the night
>>
> raids
>
>> would have been met with a loaded gun.
>> Regards, Bob S.
>>
>
> why would they have reacted differently to any other police which
> expects to meet loaded guns on a dawn raid and sends in a swot team?
> The police will always have more guns than the citizenry. They
> wouldn't be much cop (intentional pun) otherwise, and it's what we pay
> them for.
>
> --
> Bob
>
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