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Bud: So I bought a gun.
Mac: Oh yeah? Did someone break into your house?
Bud: No.
Mac: Your neighbor's house?
Bud: No.
Mac: Well, do you live in a high crime area?
Bud: No.
Mac: A medium crime area?
Bud: Not really.
Mac: But you feel that someone breaking into your house or attacking you is inevitable?
Bud: Not necessarily.
Mac: Hmmm... so it's not really for self-defense.
Bud: Yes it is. I need to protect myself and my family.
Mac: From whom?
Bud: Criminals.
Mac: But you said...
Bud: Statistics don't matter. Crime can happen, therfore it will happen.
Mac: That doesn't really make sense. Is there any other reason?
Bud: Obama.
Mac: Oh! You think the government is going to oppress you. Obama's going to go all Hitler.
Bud: Yep.
Mac: Like suspending Habeas Corpus?
Bud: Yes.
Mac: Like kidnapping innocent people?
Bud: Absolutely.
Mac: Like torturing Americans?
Bud: Sure.
Mac: Like taking our guns?
Bud: Oh hell yes.
Mac: Like tapping your phones and emails?
Bud: Wait, they already did all those.
Mac: Yeah, they did. But there was a Republican in the oval office so a vast majority of gun owners assumed everything was fine.
Bud: Look, the Second Amendment gives me the right to have a gun.
Mac: Sure, but it doesn't order everyone to have a gun.
Bud: Yes it does, we need it in order to fight oppression.
Mac: You think having a few guns means that you can stand up against the Army, Navy, Air Force, or even the Coast Guard?
Bud: They won't fire on their own.
Mac: They arrested Tim McVeigh and sentenced him to death without breaking a sweat.
Bud: But he was a terrorist.
Mac: "Terrorist" is just another word for "enemy of the state" now. And if you rebelled against the government, that's what they'd call you and that's what they'd treat you like.
Bud: But there are like 50 million households with guns in the US. Believe me if we all stood up at once...
Mac: But that won't happen. No one in New Orleans even tried to prevent the police from illegally taking citizen's guns during Katrina. No one drove down to Waco to stop the ATF from massacring that cult. No one attacked Guantanamo for illegally holding people without trial or torturing. The police are being militarized, being given military weapons, equipment, and training. There's even an active Army unit stationed permanently inside the US (with more on the way). No one is standing up against them. No militia is resisting.
So why do you have a gun?
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