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Originally posted by gjbourke
Please give up the the damn guns. You don't need the stupid dangerous things!!
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"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State"
-- Heinrich Himmler
At the risk of sounding like a militia type, one of the original intents of the founding fathers giving us the right to bear arms was to protect ourselves from the government itself. If we give up all of our guns, we have no recourse against an out-of-control government.
I know it may sound silly, but an armed populace is another part of the checks and balances in American democracy. Do I think that there is a need for the guns now? Other than protecting the home (or yourself on the street if your state has a concealed carry law) and hunting, no. But I am not willing to give up my right to own firearms, simply because they are not necessary
at this time.
You may now proceed call me paranoid and crazy, but if the government ever flips out and goes insane, or WWIII breaks out and there's a massive land war in North America, you know which basement you can take refuge in. That's right, the dead guy upstairs holding the deer rifle with M16 rounds in him. But at least I went down fighting, choosing not to be conquered.