Following the Oslo attacks, Germans are in "ban-mode"

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Banning guns (i.e. enforcing certain limitations to people's right to walk around with lethal weapons) is only 2 steps from Nazism anyway, because...

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Oh, so Germany was still a republic under Hitler? Was France a republic under Bonaparte?

In a strict sense, they were. So is currently China.

A democratic republic is merely a sub-category of the republican form of government.

These types of laws only serve to hurt liberty. Loss of liberty leads to the loss of free government (republic, despite your lazy terminology, means 'rule of law'). This means tyranny, where liberty is substantially even less.

Even if "republic" would mean "rule of law" I don't see how stricter gun control would violate or negate the rule of law provided that this stricter control was adopted through a democratic and constitutional process and could in theory be reversed through the same democratic and constitutional means.

You cannot have the rule of law and rule of the people at the same time.

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