Baraka_Guru

Your appeals to emotion aside, you are assumptive in your claim. When this "bad shit" happens, it doesn't usually go unnoticed. As far as I know, both Canada and the United States are societies that have checks and balances for their public agencies--internal investigators, non-partisan auditors, and the like. This isn't Russia nor North Korea, where you might have a legitimate cause for concern, though I do think the numbers would be far worse. If you do, however, think that your government agencies are corrupt, why haven't you adequately spoken about this yet? You are too focused on the subject of guns, as though they were a solution in and of themselves, which they aren't.

As a reader of your thread, I have been all but completely unsatisfied with what you have written thusfar. There are clear lapses of logic and subject matter that you have yet to address. I suggest you do so before you run this thread into the ground. There are already threads here that discuss gun rights. I was interested in this new thread of yours because it sounded like you might be willing to discuss the wider issues.

I will reiterate: This is not about guns and gun rights alone. This is about law, authority, and power. dksuddeth, what are your thoughts on these within the context of this thread? Do you think corruption is widespread? If so, what do you propose we do about it? Clearly there is more to be done than being sure you're packing heat.

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