Originally posted by Risto:Dude you are inconsistent. First you say there is nothing you can do when the government is really bad. Now you list some stuff in which cases owning a gun would not help at all. Good luck shooting your way out of Nazi Europe with a gun. You may need the rocket launcher after all.
By the way you can also defend yourself with a tazer or with rubber bullets. No need to be able to pop a few dozen holes per second into some guy who pissed you off.
When the Nazis were rounding people up, they didn't break out the tanks imediatly. If every Jew in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle with 20 rounds the holocaust would not have happened.
Also, tazers, and rubber bullets are pretty situational.