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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Yeah, all those AK-47s really helped in Libya, didn't they?
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
I don't think the US sent them.
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It was a reply to this:
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
The most effective physical defense against any genocide imaginable is the reverse of this: a selective-fire individual weapon over every mantle and two hundred rounds ready ammunition. Whereupon we'd all be Switzerland. Which is notably free of that genocide thing.
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When the government has artillery, tanks, an air force and an army with modern discipline and command structures, the civilians get massacred no matter how many selective fire individual weapons they may have.
Rifles in homes do not make genocide impossible.