What is Happening Today with Our Freedoms, that a Gun would Solve?

   Word is, often before taking over a nation, the government takes guns away. The surprising thing may be that this might have happened even in America, with the king of England ordering the seizure of weapons.
   So, it is suggested we, as Americans, should not allow gun control, should not allow our guns to be banned. Should not, should not, for our very freedom is at stake.
   To start, I would suggest it should be no surprise that governments would seek to take away weapons from the people in order to take over a nation. Yes, that can make sense.
  But, consider that conditions are different than they were in colonial America. In colonial America, if the Americans were to fight, they would need to bring their muskets from their homes. Back then, an army didn't supply the weapons. It didn't issue its soldiers their weapons. No, if the soldier was to have a weapon, he needed to bring that weapon from his home.
   If things were like they are today, the king probably would not have sought to take the colonists' weapons. If there had been a standing army, and it had all the guns the soldiers would need, it would have done the king no good to confiscate guns from the citizens.
   As we consider this today, what should we consider? If the government banned guns, would we be easier targets for take-over over by that government?
   To begin with, the federal government is already in charge. What you must be talking about, then, is would it make it easier for government to take our freedom of speech, or freedom of religion, or to haul us off to jail on trumped up political charges?
   I wonder.
   I think it not wrong to look at our nation at present, and at situations where government might be incurring into our freedoms, and wonder. I think it not wrong to consider the times President Trump has stripped press privileges from journalists who were not friendly towards him. Would the journalist have done any good if he or she had pulled out a gun and said, "President, you can't do that. The NRA warned me this could happen, and I've got my Glock right here, ready to stop you."
   I think of the president not allowing immigrants to apply for asylum, and depriving them of human rights in the detention camps. Now, what would we think of them, if one of them pulled a gun and said he was going to stand up for his rights with an AR-15? Surely, that is not the way to handle the situation -- even though it be that rights are being taken by government.
   I think of all the talk of religious freedoms eroding. Never once have I heard it suggested we should take out our guns to keep the government from taking away those religious rights.