"We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition."
The US would probably rank less authoritarian if it got rid of all the anti-gun laws encrouching on freedom.
Every authoritarian government and dictatorship has always taken away freedoms through gun control.
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the scores in the index for Freedom House, another website, rank its decline mostly based in civil liberties and political rights.