China has done this before - during the Tang dynasty, Buddhism was deemed a foreign threat (it’s Indian in origin, theology and dogma) and Nestorian Christians were also persecuted<p.Later you had the Red Turbans, a millenarian Christian-Daoist-Buddhist syncreticism that nearly overthrew the Manchu Qing dynasty
And here is an example of why the 2nd amendment was written down to codify man’s right to self defense from a tyrannical government.
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