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Originally posted by Kadath
You don't need a fucking handgun, people, let alone an assault rifle. You're not in a militia. You aren't going to be called upon to defend your settlement from hostile Indians or the King of England. Give up your tools of rage.
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It's disturbing that you are so willing to dictate the needs of others, and make such predictions of the future. Are you willing to dictate exactly how many cups of sugar that a family "needs" per day? How many cars they "need" to have? How many luxury items they "need"? Feel free to plummet down that slippery slope, but don't take any of us with you. If you are so sure that Americans will never need to know how to use a weapon and have one available, please let me know what the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow are. Thanks.
Throughout history, the first step to controlling a nation has been to physically disarm it. To take that step against ourselves is pure folly, and I don't understand why any reasonable nation would do so. In nearly every state that conceal/carry laws have been passed, violent crimes have gone DOWN. It doesn't take much to guess what would happen if the exact opposite -- disarming all law-abiding citizens -- would do to the violent crime rate nationwide. At one point Washington DC had the most strict gun control laws in the nation, and also the highest murder rate. Reactionist gun control laws do nothing but create more victims for the people who break the very same laws -- criminals.
Regardless of what you think about guns, or how afraid of them that you may be (that is often a factor), you are in a minority. Minnesota (an incredibly liberal state, by any comparison) recently passed a conceal/carry bill and it is only a matter of time before statistics supporting it in our state will be made available. Expect to see similar measures soon in other states that have the sense to look at what is going on around them.
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There's a very important and clear difference between patriotism and vociferous obedience to the administration's policies. I love America. I distrust my current government.
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It's funny how in your sig you claim to distrust your current government, and yet rally to be disarmed by it. Please explain how on earth that makes any sense..?