anyone else ever get the feeling that our governments are attempting to become the only armed people in our countries? and then of coarse realize the threat that poses...
Normal throughout history.
No small number of people ruling over a large number of people wants the large number of people to have effective weapons.
This goes back thousands of years as far back as recorded human history.
In feudal times even crossbows were outlawed many places because it allowed a peasant the capability to pierce the armor of a knight with minimal skill. An ignorant simple peasant that had to spend most of their life toiling in the fields (not learning to fight, learning strategy or tactics etc) could defeat a knight trained in martial arts since boyhood.
This was a major threat.
When thousands of peasants would revolt a small force of knights could easily crush them. This kept the king and the aristocrats firmly in power. Anything that might change this balance could upset the entire system of government, where most had a lifetime of forced labor for the benefit of the few.
The few who rule over the many have never wanted the many to have anywhere near equality in martial capability or arms throughout all of human history.
They never will.
This is easy to understand.
If you made decisions for a living that made thousands happy, and pissed thousands off on a regular basis, would you feel safer if they were armed or disarmed?
If your bodyguards and forces at your disposal had capabilities and arms exceeding anything the masses had, or were merely equal to those of the masses?
Rulers always want to insure their forces can trump several times as many peasants. It is job security to know they can crush large numbers of peasants if necessary.
This is why the right to keep and bear arms had to be declared, it is something rulers naturally would be inclined against, and governments always naturally move against.
