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:agummythink: I think I agree with that as well. I still think the US has a relative monopoly on violence (obvious exceptions include organized crime, the deep state, powerful companies ... The Clintons ... Boeing). Enshrining the right of citizen to own firearms and the earliest politicians being against standing armies is really important.

Even though guns don't meaningfully put Americans in an adversarial position against our government, the mentality of being able to own arms makes a massive psychological difference (look at Australia vs America during the Scamdemic ... or even New York vs Tennessee in policy decisions).

Those officials trying to crack down on militias, or arresting protesters from Jan 6th and implying they're some kind of militia when they're clearly not, is trampling on those fundamental concepts and is surely a path to authoritarianism.