Quote Originally Posted by Browning151 View Post
If you can't understand those quotes then you need to study some history.
I'm pretty astute when it comes to history and I recognize that most of these quotes are either taken out of context or otherwise irrelevant. Additionally, the comparison between Modern day US government and any kind of übernationalist dictatorial regimes; be it Hitlers Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Russia is simply far from historically accurate. It's like comparing apples to chicken

Put very simply; One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
This is laughable at best.

The FEAR of a public uprising keeps gov't in check, just like the fear of jail keeps most citizens in check.
...and yet the percentage of incarcerated people continues to rise, to the point that we have the highest number of prisons per capita, and the highest number of incarcerated people per capita in the world

Will they put restriction upon restriction until it is beyond practicality to own one? If they continue with the current logic that's where we're headed.
No. We aren't headed that way.