With poor governance, rampant corruption, a collapsing economy and an extremely high-strung nation, the chicken-or-the-egg theory applies. When a government is entirely incapable of providing security to its citizens, it takes up arms to protect itself, and when the going gets tough those arms are used. And now that the population is armed to the teeth, disarming it is going to be a mammoth project and one that the government is not only unprepared to undertake, it seems to see no need to do it.Why any sane person would allow themselves to be disarmed--especially under these conditions and by such a government--remains unquestioned.
The solution, of course, is freedom. Authoritarianism, by it's nature, cannot produce peace, tranquility and stability. Adding more repression into the mix will produce exactly the opposite of the intended consequences.
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