A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted. Niccolo Machiavelli

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

If you can't trust your citizens owning an ICBM launch pad with nuclear warheads ready to fire at any time, you've got the wrong citizens. If your government doesn't allow you to own ICBMs, you've got the wrong government.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

An extremist example.

[–]HegeMoney 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The NWO scum bags plan on having private armies.

Gates and Bezos could easily afford them.

If no citizens can own guns, then who could ever oppose the oligarchs?

They know this, and that's why they have spent billions brainwashing the public into believing disarming themselves is a noble virtue.

It takes years of propaganda to convince some people to forsake themselves.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

this is similar to how we always want to keep iran from having nukes, other countries to etc. If we got nukes why can't they. MAD keeps us from using them but so many countries have them. Russia, china, israel, india, NK possibly. No one has used them since hiroshima. Are cooler heads prevailing? Do they really have them or are they lying to just use them for fear?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nukes have evolved. They are now in their 5th and possibly 6th generations now. They are small and low yield, they are unrecognizable from the MAD ones from the 1950s and 1960s.

They also have been used in Yemen and the Ukraine, as well as most likely China and recently in Lebanon.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

SAVED

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure that's a legit quote, but I'm not saying it isn't. It may be a poor translation, or not on these pages yet:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Niccolò_Machiavelli

There are certainly quotes with "armed" and "trust" but not the same.