Low Information Voter on Nostr: Perhaps the gun owners are less likely to protest because the government is less ...
Perhaps the gun owners are less likely to protest because the government is less likely to do things that they don't like that are obvious enough to upset them?
"Whatever happens,
We have got,
The Maxim Gun,
And they have not"
- Belloc Hillaire, and every government that isn't the USA.
Last century, at least twenty different governments killed at least a million of their own subjects ("democide"). Democracies, autocracies, single-party regimes. Right-wing and Left-wing. Religious and secular.
But none of them was the US of A. Even though it is #4 or so for population, and has at least as many bad politicians as anywhere else.
Something is very unusual about the US of A, and I think its likely the way the tax base can shoot back.
"Whatever happens,
We have got,
The Maxim Gun,
And they have not"
- Belloc Hillaire, and every government that isn't the USA.
Last century, at least twenty different governments killed at least a million of their own subjects ("democide"). Democracies, autocracies, single-party regimes. Right-wing and Left-wing. Religious and secular.
But none of them was the US of A. Even though it is #4 or so for population, and has at least as many bad politicians as anywhere else.
Something is very unusual about the US of A, and I think its likely the way the tax base can shoot back.