Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #1314 –
ersi, you think government grants you your rights… We disagree on this.
We –at least many of us, here in the U.S.– still think that our rights preceded government; that government exists to safeguard such rights… And should be abolished, when it doesn't. We said so, unequivocally.
But I understand your point of view. You'd have whoever got a majority of the vote be allowed to do whatever they want. Don't you remember what that led to before?
(The Jews do…)
Americans own guns; and, yes, in large part that is to prevent the government from doing stupid shit.
The government will do stupid shit, if it faces no opposition.
Think a moment about why Imperial Japan didn't invade the west coastal U.S. at the onset of WW II… (Too many guns in the hands of too many Americans!) People will fight, if they can.
You'd like people to be unable to fight — I take it.
Are you unable or unwilling to fight? Have you nothing to fight for? Does your shame make you denigrate nobler souls?
Your country has repeatedly been conquered. That's not a criticism; it's a fact. It's what happened in Europe throughout most of history… Peoples conquering peoples.
And now you want to preach "multiculturalism" as the new religion?
Have you considered that only a free people, able to defend themselves, can resist the various entities that call themselves "government"?
Do you miss the Soviet Union? Would you explain why you don't?