Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why "a free state" as opposed to "the state"? [View all]DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's not about grabbing your 2nd-Amendment-guaranteed rifle and gunning down Nazis in the streets. First you have to come to the conclusion and the decision that armed insurrection is the right thing to do.
Cook up some propaganda, wrap it in the flag, give a shout-out to Jesus, sprinkle with some nationalistic jingoism and almost everybody will eat it up. And those few who don't will be outsiders, rebels and terrorists.
As a very last consequence, people want security. Maybe they want a security of the individual that is achieved by the assurance that they will be left alone. ("Freedom (TM)" Maybe they want a security of the community that is achieved by the assurance that a big entity will take care of the problem. ("God (TM)"
If propaganda can promise the people what they want and tell them what they want to hear ("We'll get back back at the Jews for bankrupting Germany!" then they will welcome tyranny-in-disguise.