Praise the lord and pass the ammo
Is there something in their collective that prevents it?
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life…
#amendment2
I'm not clear on that. By world standards, we Americans are enormously wealthy. It's a lot easier for us, economically, to buy a rifle and ammunition and learn to use it well than it is for most of the rest of the world. There may be attitudinal things as well; the American ideal of the armed citizen defending home and hearth is not shared around the world.