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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
rendered stupid? I believe Dunedan made a very effective argument that caused the thought processes in alot of peoples brain come to a stuttering halt and go backwards for a bit.
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This thread is moving fast. Sorry this is late.
I fail to see where his argument was effective. It illustrated an impossible situation (untrained people with tiny guns prevailing against the best-trained military in the world with big guns) and then put forward a "we gotta do it in case the government gets oppressive" argument, which might be valid if it weren't for the fact that the government is already oppressive to an Orwellian degree, and no one's shooting.
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Also, HAD a bunch of us gotten together and decided to fire back over "Warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, waterboarding, no-fly lists, unwarranted search and seizures if you're within 2 hours of a border, and "free speech zones", where would you have been? my guess is that you woudn't have been grabbing gun and ammo to join us,
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That's irrelevant since I'm not going around spewing Rambotalk about how I'm gonna shoot the cops.
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and whos fault would THAT be on?
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Are you seriously suggesting the public should have all along been acquiring tanks and RPGs? Where did you think we were going to get the money for it? Or are you suggesting that we shouldn't have given the government the money for weaponry, in which case we'd currently be under Soviet control .. .