“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator, Vice President
One exceptionally stupid argument of modern progressives is that guns are now a useless deterrent against tyranny, because military weaponry is too powerful.
That explains how a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan have thwarted invading Soviet and US armies for 24 years since 1980.






