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That's because you don't live in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, South Africa, Russia, Cuba, Iran, or any one of many other countries where they live in daily fear of the government and have their liberties severely curtailed. Your answer is really amazing. You act as though oppressive governments don't exist. Just an astonishing position.
You don't live there either so know nothing about their problems or how to solve them. You have demonstrated a fear of your own government and you have any gun you want, so that cannot be the whole answer either. I recognize the primitive exploitive nature of those repressive dictatorships, and the way they control the population with capitalists money to ELITES to keep it that way. Iran in particular 9And add China and Russia too!} was exploited at one time by Euro businesses and then America, and that led directly to the 12ers revolt and power grab, made even worse with the dismantling of Iraq another repressive government that was our partner after the Shah fell, and we did business with Saddam who emerged after the overthrow of his government. You get the general idea here but it was us chasing the dollars that destabilized much of the Mideast and South America and even Africa by westerners chasing that dollar.
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A complete nonsense answer. The point is to AVOID large, oppressive, and corrupt governments. Wake up and smell the coffee. You might want to think a bit about why our government is "benign".
It's never been as benign as you think and has promoted the big bucks crowd for a long time going back to it's founding. It was a slow slog but the elites that control the money that have been running OUR government, just less obvious than those murderous repressive governments we all rail against. You went from being cool and thoughtful to partisan and dismissive rather fast, even for you in the face of disagreement. 
