they also wanted black people in slavery...
True, guns were used to enslave, colonize, and guns are still being used today to control other peoples' resources and to subdue them around the world, but in an emergency, whether man-made or natural, regardless of skin color, we may all need protection and the system may be unable to provide it for everyone?
Do you remember, what happened to the desperate victims of 'Katrina'? And do you remember how long it took for any federal response? And do you remember, how good that response was, when it finally came?
If you follow global current events, in our lifetime, countless innocent people have been slaughtered around the world by armed gangs or just common criminals? What if the people in every village or town in the world were well-armed and organized themselves to resist, would all these tragedies have happened or would they have been as severe? Look at the millions of people, who have become refugees, because they could not resist poorly armed gangs or groups? There only option was to flee, even very minor threats? And what is the cost of instability, both present and future, to these societies?
In the US, we may never have the instability that has plagued other parts of the world, but we are not immune from natural and man-made disasters?
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