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Here's the thing about "the politics" as dksuddeth and The_Dundan see them and how they relates to the thread topic.
The political order you guys seem to support isn't something that could be accomplished by a political party - it is so different from the history, intention, and reality of our government that creating it would necessarily entail a revolution. It's not that I think that all of the positions therein are bad, just that we should label them accurately.
If that political order is the motivation for wanting to have guns, then you aren't really looking to defend yourself at all, because defense implies that you are protecting a status, or trying to return to a former status. It never existed. What you're really talking about is reserving the ability to overthrow the government by force. Again, that's not defense, it's revolution.
And P.S., the posts between The_Dunedan and roachboy are fascinating. Thanks guys.
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