Good luck trying to negotiate peace during an actual invasion.
Weapons are a leveraging tool, not a means to an end. They don’t make lasting peace but they’re a good tools to hold your own until negotiation is back on the table.
The problem is the right continues to conflate gun regulation as a ban on all guns.
We do ban types of guns, a thoroughly unremarkable compromise to not regulating gun sales like one might a car or a house. Arguably two things more important than a gun unless you’re a hunter who needs to live on the land or you live in a crime invested neighborhood. Still would rather have a car than a gun for the latter but I digress.
We wouldn’t need to ban any type of guns or have regulations to manufacturers beyond guns being functional rather than minimizing how many people they can kill, if we regulated them.
Maybe not to the point where you have to renew your license at the DMV-like DFA… I get not wanting to go through that personal hell. I really do. I wouldn’t want to with my guns.
But then again, I do support arming a country under invasion. I’m totally disgusted that there are people who think Ukraine, and the US, should be kowtowing to Russia at all. They have no defensible reason to be in Ukraine. None! Zip! Nada!
And if you support Ukraine laying down and rolling over than that slippery slope will continue to carry when either Russia, or China, or any other country thinking they could do that to us.
Or are we the only country deserving of help when we desired Independence?
Without France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic we’d still be a UK territory. We would likely be a set of proxy territories by European nations. And while they did it for their own personal agendas, in the long run, independence is almost always a more economic and cultural beneficial conclusion!
Especially when a superpower spreads itself out too thin. That’s why the UK lost the American Revolution. That’s why Germany lost the Second World War. That’s why we lost all our proxy wars. That’s why the Soviet Union lost the Cold War. It grew too big to hold onto what became eventually independent countries.
The only reason why Russia wants unification it thinks it will be an economic boon! And because they can’t buy off it’s neighbors anymore without violent repercussions from the local population.