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You and your neighbors packing assault weapons does not make you "free". It makes you "the Taliban".
by reader5000 13y ago
You and your neighbors packing assault weapons does not make you "free". It makes you "the Taliban".
- vy8vWJlco 13y agoTell that to the minute-men (Minutemen), coincidentally originating in Massachusetts.
- lotyrin 13y agoI don't own or currently have plans to purchase an assault weapon. I do, however observe that a state in which only the established power may have such things is certainly not free (neither liberated nor without cost).
- GHFigs 13y agoThat's a weak point. You could just as easily say it makes you "the Northern Alliance", "the French Resistance", "the Black Panthers", or "the Swiss". Weapons do not dictate ideology.
- reader5000 13y agoPoint wasn't about ideology but way of life. For example, one of the great things about living in a largely gun-free society is that my probability of getting murdered in a drive-by revenge killing tomorrow is pretty low, since I do not belong to an armed faction responsible for an assault on an opposing faction last week.
- GHFigs 13y agoI think it's disingenuous to bring up the Taliban and then deny you were saying anything about ideology. It was an emotional appeal that buries your true point. You know who else did that? Hitler.
- LeeHunter 13y agoGodwin's Law FTW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law