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Originally posted by Simple_Min
Abraham Lincoln once said:
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I'll leave it up to you to interchange slavery to the relevant theme of this thread.
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Lincoln also suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
No one seemed to comment on that, all I've seen so far was Nazi and gun banter.
And as far as the whole "guns could have saved Germany from Hitler" theory, the Third Reich didn't need gun control to maintain their power. The success of Nazi programs (restoring the economy, dispelling socio-political chaos) and the misappropriation of justice by the apparatus of terror assured the compliance of the German people. Gun control in Germany, the Law on Firearms and Ammunition, was introduced in 1928 under the Weimar regime in large part to disarm the private militias, such as the S.A. (Nazi Brownshirts). The Nazis just didn't get rid of it when they came into power.
As far as the "Patriot Act," this is just another one of those "go to sleep, Mommy and Daddy will take care of it" situations that seem to happen frequently in the US nowadays. As long as people have their little plastic flags to wave, no one questions why the government is using the Bill of Rights as toilet paper. Guns however, are an important issue here, because the American people don't notice anything until it has something to do with someone wanting to take them away. Who cares if the government knows every book you've checked out at the library in the past five years, you still have your gun. I wish they would try and take away our firearms so people would wake up and take notice of what's going on around them.