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Ursus marijanus
This sort of thing has happened before and will happen again. Zombie apocalypses never have, so your effort to equate the likelihood of the Gov't going bad with that of a zombie apocalypse isn't sincere.Everything you just listed is true.
So that means that our military (regular Americans like you and I) will turn on civilians and you will need a stock-pile of guns/ammo to fight the Army, Navy, Airforce, and Marines?
Quite a leap, don't you think?
But as has been pointed out, this nation had a civil war in the past, and Germany secured its power by means of a gun ban one human lifetime ago.
It would be extremely foolish to think we're "too advanced" for that to happen. We're maintaining the appearance of the prosperous society we became in the '50s and '60s, but it's a veneer. If it cracks, the wisdom of relying on gov't for anything except martial law ... would be revealed as bad.
Giving the gov't absolute power will lead to the foregone outcome ... absolute corruption. Guns are a useful instrument of social control precisely because of their capacity for ugliness. That's a better reason for "assault weapon bans" than anything the soccer moms could say or do. cn