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Originally Posted by meglamaniac
Genocide has nothing to do with gun control and everything to do with government. What good would a gun have been to anyone faced with 10 heavily armed Russian soldiers?
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I think that might be misunderstanding the argument slightly. Obviously a government will "win" in a fight against disorganised poorly armed citizenry. However, I believe what people are implying is that a population having guns would raise the cost (or make it harder) to "round people up". It's a bit like having a lock on your door - clearly it's not going to stop someone who really wants to get into your house, but it might act as a sufficient detterent to make someone think twice / not bother.
Of course, there's a very real argument that having everyone armed probably increases the overall violence by the state. The police seem to shoot more people in the United States than they do here, to use a crude comparisons and I suspect everyone having a gun probably escalates things like evictions, repossesions, minor arrests, etc.