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Someone stopped by searching for “howmany gun owing societies have had a revoltuion.”
To be clear; I assume the search was for how many societies in which it was customary for adults to own, and possibly to carry; have ever rebelled against their government.
One.
A Brit named George tried to disarm England’s American colonies; setting off a short and relatively bloodless war.
Now, for the the “fine print,” guns did not become generally affordable for the poorest classes of society until almost 1600. England itself would be relatively disarmed for another fifty years, and Europe generally was too poor to make a gun a common household appurtenance until 1870.
So the American colonies, which were often in peril of foreign attack, Indian attack, piracy, and the need to hunt for food, was the only country in which the majority of citizens were armed and proficient with weapons.
When a hereditary monarch, England’s King George III, unwisely attempted to disarm (confiscate gunpowder, making colonists guns useless) his subjects, the reaction was swift and effective.
Therefore, it is ironic that there have been almost no revolutions or attempted revolutions by the armed majority of a nation. For an example, te Romanian Revolution is one of several similar regime changes in that time period.
The revolutions and attempted revolutions have almost entirely been by a disarmed people so desperate they use their empty hands against heavily armed soldiers.
What? Every colony of the British Empire has had an armed rebellion against the British at one time or another including Ireland.
Someone stopped by searching for “howmany gun owing societies have had a revoltuion.”
To be clear; I assume the search was for how many societies in which it was customary for adults to own, and possibly to carry; have ever rebelled against their government.
One.
And another point....when a government goes nuts and does what it wants....it is usually because the people of that country are unarmed and can't resist....even if they wanted to..........we need to stay well armed, and ever vigilant......
