Even if you believe—as many of my European followers seem to—that your own liberal democratic state has escaped history and become an agent for good and the distribution of free public benefits, and that the only threat from the state is an electoral victory by the likes of Trump or Orban or the AfD or Le Pen…
…why would you leave a gun laying around, loaded with fascism, that can be mobilized to produce a totalitarian hellscape by one bad election?
“My state is just a little guy, just a small bean, all it does is hand out free cake, it doesn’t hurt nobody”
Also that state:
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2024/5/25/punched-choked-kicked-german-police-crack-down-on-student-protests