The Law Wars

If you watch old western movies, one theme is repeated over and over: bringing Law and Order to the Wild West. That order was almost always imposed by the use of guns. Often, the town council would vote to restrict certain activities, but that did not bring order. They would then let it be known that a certain town was looking for a 'hired gun' to enforce the laws that a certain class of 'outlaw' refused to obey. This hired gun would shoot a few people and at the end of the movie, everyone is shown shopping and walking about in peace. In American history, Guns and Laws are considered synonymous. Even, as I write, President Biden warned the people who resist the new laws or seek to protest such laws to remember one thing: The President has F-16s and the people protesting the laws do not. In the eyes of the rulers, Wild America has replaced the Wild West. The solution remains the same: who gets to hire the gun? When the outlaws get to hire the gun, a nation is in trouble.
Think about it: laws have no meaning beyond the methods used to enforce those laws. In the Old West, the town folks required the person hired to have a quicker draw than those resisting the law. In early America, as illustrated in the First Amendment, the people and the government were to be equal in the ownership of 'guns.' It was considered obvious that if one side had a monopoly on guns or who had the superior means to kill people, then that side could produce a totalitarian legal order: there was nothing anyone could do to resist it. No one can ever vote a tyrant out of office: a law requiring him to leave office is meaningless if he has bigger guns or a monopoly on guns. In fact, as I write, the government is producing killer drones that can seek out any person that it has been instructed to search out and destroy. No gun can counter a killer bot.
History is the story of man's attempt to establish laws and enforce some kind of order based upon those laws. The questions never change: Who gets to make the laws and who gets to enforce the laws? That is the real battle in our world. Everything else are mere deceptions to gain power. Democracy means the people get to make the laws: Does anyone really believe that?