What she said was that taking guns away from law abiding citizens won’t stop the psychos from acquiring weapons, so it’ll only hurt the ones that do follow the law.
yeah
But what if Germany finally decides to get off their asses and finish what they started, making their way over? What kind of militia would that leave you with? A bunch of incompetent nancies with a shotgun shortage to rival Ancient Greece? Any form of non-military resistance would be doomed.
History’s most capable combatants have come from long backgrounds with firearms, dozen-plus-kill snipers especially, with little need for military training when joining a campaign. Here’s a pretty good example to get the gist across. While some crazies have an easier time finding weapons, to cause a few pointless deaths, the populace has the ability to better inflict a great many more objective-specific casualties. It can be argued that one random dead man in peacetime is acceptable collateral for several incapacitated invaders.
You could hope war is at an utter end, and select option D from the Prisoner’s Dilemma, but if your democracy is trustworthy and other governments are not, you’re better off taking the blasted deal. Face it, if the United Kingdom were not allied to every nation in its proximity, it’d be invaded in a heartbeat for being both valuable and internally vulnerable.