Originally Posted by
LV426
Except that guarantee is only recent to 2003, and the previous 200+ years of the 2nd Amendment never guaranteed that right.
We do not need guns in order to have a functioning democracy, and I would argue that guns work against democracy because they are tools of intimidation; so showing up with a rifle at a polling station isn't democracy, it's fascism.
Guns cannot thrive without the fascism that makes their abundance necessary.
If you wish to remove firearms from outdoor sportsmen,
you must also take clubs from those who golf,
tackle from those who fish,
balls from those who bowl,
and racquets from those who take to the courts.
Civilized people--interesting people--don't want to live in a world that's too safe for having fun.
While I agree that's there's no reason for civilian ownership of military weapons,
I also acknowledge that an irrational phobia of all firearms
is no less a psychosis than an irrational phobia of anything else.
In the end, LV426, you and I don't want to live in the same world,
so we're each seeking to make our one common world
more compatible with ourselves and not the other.
That's what people do.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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