The Right to Bear Arms

This is a note for my American friends.

Hi. I don't necessarily endorse the American doctrine of the citizens' right to bear arms, but I just want to point out the anachronistic nature of it.

The doctrine was developed in the age of muskets and canon, before steam power and electricity.  The SPIRIT of the doctrine is that the populace has the same firepower as the state.  The POINT was for the citizenry to be able to defend itself from the tyranny of the state.

Obviously now the balance of arms between state and populace is extremely out of balance, to say the least.

If the SPIRIT of "The right to bear arms" were fulfilled, that would mean ordinary citizens had equal access and control to every means of control and attack that the state has; nuclear, biological, chemical, submarine, aerial, satellites, nanotech and everything in between.  I'm just sayin is all.

So, the NRA and other defender's of private ownership of automatic and semi-automatic small arms are completely delusional about their ability to stop US governments from oppressing and overpowering ordinary Americans.  The only result of liberal small arms ownership is negative: high rates of domestic murder, accidents and crime.

So unless you private American citizens are going to somehow achieve equity with the state in all areas of modern warfare, which as you must admit looks pretty impossible, you should just hand in all your guns now and bring down the crime rate, the domestic murder rate and the number of accidental injuries and deaths from small arms misuse.