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>>Try to use it go gang up with few dozen of hundreds of citizens and oppose some tax regulation or something government actually cares about. You'll have FBI on your ass before you ramp up, and if that's not sufficient, yes, also military.

IIIRC the Bundys did EXACTLY that and US government is having a tough time convicting them.

>>I wonder why so many western countries don't descend into tyranny even though their citizens don't own guns.

Maybe because America acts as a guarantor of security via NATO and thousands of other ways?



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