Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
The situation in Burma makes me think that the right to keep and bear arms would have radically changed the equation, had it been part of the culture and legal heritage. If a small percentage of civilians were armed, the military regime would have needed to be much more careful about where to send troops. And the soldiers themselves would have been more thoughtful about facing down thousands of protesters, if they knew that some were armed.

A lot of folks scoff at the "prevention of tyranny" argument for gun ownership, but let's face it -- peaceful revolution does not work if the ruling regime has any support from the outside (cough, India, cough, China).
Rubbish, it would simply have raised the death toll terribly.