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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bilow who wrote (693872)1/19/2013 12:30:56 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575758
 
Sure. In the past. But the disparity between the available civilian arms and the military ones now is vast.

As to a significant number of military defectors, you have got to be kidding. Sure, it is possible, but so is a meteorite of solid blue-white diamond slamming down in my backyard. As long as we have more or less free elections, there is no way a government could get that extreme. So saying we cannot have reasonable gun controls because of something that has almost zero chance of occurring is not particularly persuasive. Might as well prepare for the zombie apocalypse.

But, yes. I did not take into account the very low probability possibilities. But, as with most things having to do with a civilization, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis. One that includes the chances of it occurring. Otherwise we have a situation like we did under the Bush administration where it was considered fine to give up certain civil rights in the war on terror. Granted, there is precedent for doing this in time of war. The difference is that a war on terror is pretty much a permanent one over what is a low probability event. So we are not facing a temporary loss of our ability to avoid the government spying on us, monitoring our communications and tracking our every move. It is an essentially permanent state of affairs.
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