Would Our U.S. Democracy Exist without Guns?

The short answer is "NO!"

Will our democracy continue to exist without guns?

Again the short answer is: "NO!"

But here it gets very complicated from this point on.

Then the question becomes who should have guns to protect our democracy?

My question to you is: "Who had guns that created our democracy in the first place?"

Yes. The citizens rose up with their guns and established the U.S. democracy and thousands died creating this democracy and millions now have died defending the democracy that our ancestors created ever since.

But now, the complication. The complication is people who are sophisticated today think often:" Well. We no longer live in the 1700s. We are now sophisticated and don't need rifles and muskets and all that anymore because there are just now too many people with guns."

Yes. That is true but who actually has guns? I would say that half of the people (law abiding citizens) have guns legally owned. I would say maybe half of the guns now owned are not owned by law abiding citizens and would keep these guns no matter what laws may change. So, tell me what happens when the law abiding citizens give up their guns to remain law abiding citizens? Yes. That's right. They get robbed, raped and murdered.

But this is just one aspect of this very complicated situation.

Here is the next level of the problem.

The next level has to do with the history of volunteer armies and volunteer police forces in countries around the world.

What happens when you create an all volunteer army or police force anywhere?

What usually happens is nepotism. In other words a soldier or policeman brings in his friends and relatives to also be soldiers and policemen or policewomen.

So, you might ask what is wrong with this?

What is wrong with this is the more inbred through nepotism an army or police force becomes historically (in any country) the further removed from the citizenry it becomes. So, as time moves on the needs of the army or police force override the needs of the citizenry. This has been historically proven worldwide for centuries in literally every country.

So, how do the citizens of any country prevent the army and police forces not being there for the citizenry?

There is no one answer to this question. And since there is no one answer to this question worldwide, it is one of the reasons why the right to bear arms becomes absolutely necessary.

Because as all armies and police forces become more and more corrupt through nepotism etc. people start disappearing that aren't guilty of anything. People get beat up that aren't guilty of anything. Women get raped by police officers etc. You get the picture. What happens in all countries around the world is the corruption of the police and the army. And the problem is there is no one real answer that permanently solves this problem.

So, the way to prevent any army or police force from creating a coup and overthrowing a government(including the U.S. Government) is to allow citizens to own their own weapons. In this way you create a de facto citizen army that can rise up to defeat all types of corruption whenever necessary.

Now you might say this is vigilantism. But, what do you call the Revolutionary war when it first began? I'm sure the British might have called it Vigilantism when it started too.

However, without a citizen army of last resort any army or police force could theoretically become corrupt within our nation or any nation. And if that happened after all legal weapons were taken away from the citizenry, then only criminals and a corrupt military or police force would be left in any nation on earth in charge. And what is the difference between that and when Hitler registered all the Jews weapons, then confiscated them all and then rounded them up and gassed 6 million of them to death. This is what a corrupt army killing the citizenry actually looks like. Could that happen here?

This is the real problem. This could literally happen anywhere given the right set of events.

So, will our democracy continue to exist here in the U.S. without citizens armed legally? The answer is "No!" . If all legal arms were confiscated I would give the U.S. only a maximum of 50 years before the U.S. and all countries on earth were all dictatorships. This isn't just me saying this as an intuitive which is true. This is also me saying this as a world traveler and understanding exactly how the world actually works.