• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      They’re not. The US has as many privately owned guns as it does people. The idea behind arming the populace was (drumroll please) to repel foreign invasions.

      Also, the military weapons we’ve stockpiled for decades, making up the largest armory in the world by a wide margin, aren’t going to vanish into thin air if you cut the pentagons budget.

      Finally, if the US faced an existential threat they’d unload on the aggressor with nukes.

      Nobody’s going to invade the mainland US. They’d be stupid to try and they’d end up getting wiped out.