Hi, Tim Richardson!   
   I read your message from 18.01.2016 11:21   
      
     ak>> armed citizenry able to resist and overthrow a tyrannical   
     ak>> government."   
      
     TR> What's wrong with that? Does the thought of Americans being armed   
     TR> and able to resist a tyrant who tries to impose a dictatorial   
     TR> government on us upset your view of how *you* think we should live?   
     TR> Some people lived on their knees before dictatorships and   
     TR> repression of free thought for so long, and are so used to living   
     TR> that way, they think Americans should want to live that way as   
     TR> well. And the fact that we possess the means of preventing an out   
     TR> and out dictator establishing a hold over us seems to upset the   
     TR> rest of the world.   
      
   If a state is really a strong democratic republic it can guarantee that    
   no tyrant will come to power. It is loaded into the basement of the    
   state structure itself - no need for citizens to keep submachine guns    
   under their pillows. One person have a limited power in the US.   
      
   In other words if a railway company is good you don't need to take    
   spanners while taking a ride on the train.   
      
     TR>>> Trouble is... pretty much all those who whine about ordinary   
     TR>>> Americans owning their own guns, standing at a microphone   
     TR>>> thundering against the Second Amendment, are usually surrounded   
     TR>>> by plain clothes body guards who are armed to the teeth!   
     ak>> The only hope is that they follow their promises given during the   
     ak>> election campaign. They could demand gun restriction on behalf   
     ak>> their electorate only. So democracy must show itself.   
      
     TR> We aren't a `democracy'. We are a `democratic republic'.   
      
   Above I've already told what I think of a democratic republic.   
      
      
     TR>>> Not a single teacher was armed and able to engage a gunman who   
     TR>>> was `harming the children'.   
      
     TR>>> At Sandy Hook even the security guard was `un'armed! And the   
     TR>>> children died!   
      
     ak>> I think that the probability that a teacher will kill his students   
     ak>> in temper is higher than the probability he will defend them from   
     ak>> a terrorist. :) A teacher should be unarmed, as a researcher who   
     ak>> is going to study savages in the jungle. More chances for   
     ak>> negotiations. :)   
      
     TR> To my knowledge no teacher has ever gone off in a school and   
     TR> slaughtered a classroom full of students.   
      
   Yeah, they don't carry guns yet. ;-)   
      
      
     TR> If you are a foreigner and live in a foreign country, please stay   
     TR> there and continue to be `controlled' by whatever dictator who   
     TR> rules you. We don't need you here. We already have enough leftist   
     TR> democrats who want to disarm the general public, control us in   
     TR> every aspect of our lives, and micromanage our existence. We don't   
     TR> need another one.   
      
   Of course it is up to you to decide. I mean up to Americans. But if the    
   majority wants to introduce strict arm control? Does the voice of the    
   majority means anything in your country?   
      
   Bye, Tim!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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