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Originally posted by RomanNavy
Why do y'all citizens have guns in America...
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The argument for gun possession is that, if the people are able to protect themselves it prevents the country from becoming a communist society or even a dictatorship where only the government/army have power.
I'm assuming you're not from the US, so i don't expect you to understand it's history. But gun laws were introduced into the consitution because American colonist & our forefathers distrusted big government (i.e. Great Britain) at the time. Remember, the US was originally founded as a place with a loose government and more individual freedom. It wasn't until the civil war that the US government really began passing laws to protect it's citizens and they tightened the belt even more during WW1 and the great depression.
Trying to ban weaponry altogether can lead to disastrous conflicts and possibly even civil war, as seen throughout history whenever the government attempted to do something like that. most notably the civil wars in japan when the japanese government banned swords in the 1800s.