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Originally Posted by stekim
You know, that's not my reason for supporting someone's right to own a gun. In all honesty, if our government got more tyrannical I don't think individuals owning guns is going to do much to fix it. They'll just take all the guns one by one. Sure, a few will get killed, but in the end they have more than enough firepower to get the guns. I support gun ownership because I have a right to self defense.
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We have guns....target practice. . It is sort of silly to imagine holding off government tanks with a 22. I just don't understand why the gun lobby fights every reasonable restriction on gun ownership
Anyhow, I was appalled as You must have been about the Ruby Ridge incident!.. I see that few people wish to enlighten me on this topic: I wonder why the suspicion concerning that abuse of power does not translate into distrust of the actions of the U.S. military kicking in doors in Iraq and arresting people who don't even communicate in the same language.
I suppose I am Libertarian in this respect: I don't expect individuals or groups to change or behave in a particular way just because I wish it. If my husband has one statement of high praise for me, it is what I am NOT. I am not a nag. People only change glacially and then only because they want to change. I cannot conceive of the level of arrogance required to believe that you can convince a whole nation to behave as you would like them .