Here is a great clip I recently found on youtube. After completing mandatory military service, the Swiss are required to keep the firearm they trained with, thus creating a constantly armed and ready national militia. I believe that a (responsible) armed society is the best deterrent to crime and other threats to freedom. I think about how sick I felt when I was reading a book about the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century. The very first thing the Turks did was to disarm the Armenians. They went to every village and collected every firearm. The Armenians complied, trusting that it was in their best interest. But when Turks and Kurds massacred millions of Armenian men, women, and children, they had no defense. We are blessed to live in a very stable and safe country, but it's still vitally important that citizens have the means to safeguard their families and liberties.
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That also happened in WWII Europe. Leading up to WWII most western european countries required their people to register their firearms with the government. As the war progressed and the Axis conquered more and more cities and countries the German military simply went from house to house demanding that people surrender their weapons or be killed.
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