Re: Note to Concervatives
While I do find your post amusing, I have to wonder...
Why is it that "only" the Government and it's agencies would require the use of automatic weapons and explosives...all used by members selected from the population...yet that same pool those people are drawn from, are considered suspect if they want those same tools for themselves? That is what a weapon is after all...a tool.
You cannot tell me that the majority of the population...young, old, male, female, white, black, etc...are law-breaking miscreants bent on death and destruction.
So why the discrimination in who gets to use these fancy (and potentially dangerous, in the wrong hands) toys? You can't tell me that all members of the military and law enforcement are above the same failings as the rest of us.
You know it's about power and control. A person without the right to arm and defend themselves (or even, God forbid, overthrow a government they find no longer serves their interests) is fodder for the forces that would use those same weapons against them.
Do you honestly think the next fascist movement will look as obvious as the Brown Shirts or Storm Troopers?
That is what is so disturbing about comments like these...our country is making parallel moves to what we have already seen unfold in history...and yet, people refuse to believe it or stop it as it's happening. It's discounted as paranoia, rather than seeing the writing on the wall.
Lets hope it's not your family and neighbors lined up against a wall on some cold, early morning by these future Jackboots.
While I do find your post amusing, I have to wonder...
Why is it that "only" the Government and it's agencies would require the use of automatic weapons and explosives...all used by members selected from the population...yet that same pool those people are drawn from, are considered suspect if they want those same tools for themselves? That is what a weapon is after all...a tool.
You cannot tell me that the majority of the population...young, old, male, female, white, black, etc...are law-breaking miscreants bent on death and destruction.
So why the discrimination in who gets to use these fancy (and potentially dangerous, in the wrong hands) toys? You can't tell me that all members of the military and law enforcement are above the same failings as the rest of us.
You know it's about power and control. A person without the right to arm and defend themselves (or even, God forbid, overthrow a government they find no longer serves their interests) is fodder for the forces that would use those same weapons against them.
Do you honestly think the next fascist movement will look as obvious as the Brown Shirts or Storm Troopers?
That is what is so disturbing about comments like these...our country is making parallel moves to what we have already seen unfold in history...and yet, people refuse to believe it or stop it as it's happening. It's discounted as paranoia, rather than seeing the writing on the wall.
Lets hope it's not your family and neighbors lined up against a wall on some cold, early morning by these future Jackboots.
Mikey,
Stop being sarcastic ,,,,,,don’t you know sky is falling ,,,,black folks becoming president (after SOOOO many old wothless white men), Government subsidizing Car companies, providing healthcare, regulating banks/wall street.
All this I can deal with. BUT, what is next ,,,TAKING OUR machine GUNS?? NOW THAT will cause my hemorrhoid to explode. We JUST can’t,,,,, have ,,,,,,that.