that is exactly how your country was born. and the USSR, and france, and Red china. apparently the schools aren't doing their jobs. further evidence that they should be less concerned with porn in lockers than the teaching of history.
Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free...
Sure we have a history of guns a long time ago, but i'm always a bit elitist when it comes to guns-not only don't we need them (neither does the individual american), but we also don't HAVE them. I only know four people who own guns; two are farmers (with rifles for snakes), and the other two are policewomen. Yes, I'm going to be arrogant and say that we don't need guns to defend us, and I'll be even more elitist in saying that people who WANT guns in every home are just crazy idiots. sometimes, you gotta say f**ck being moderate; GUNS. ARE. WRONG. IF. YOU. DON'T. NEED. THEM.
And the only people who need them are police, the army and maybe farmers. If you need them to defend against your government, you didn't do a good job in electing them, and if you need them to defend against each other you have bigger problems. High gun crime is only possible with high levels of gun ownership.
Do you know that since 1934, when the NAtional firearms Act passed, not even a crime was comitted with one of teh registered machine guns?
Not even one!
And I guess self-defense is not a reasonable purpose either, because the state does a great job defending us, that is why so many people are robbed every day...
And as to your assertion that if people are opressed, it is why they didn't do a good job electing people, remember one thing:
politicians lie, adn if they intend to opress you, they will lie even more.