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as i get older, i am increasingly horrified by the thought that people think they need guns to protect themselves from their own government or from their fellow citizens.
really? you people envision a scenario where you are going to hide behind a tree in your yard and repel a platoon of US Marines who want to kill you? Nothing is going to stop the most advanced fighting force on the planet except you and your AR-15? do any of you people actually stop to think about how totally absurd the whole "protection from the government" idea is? we are not living in 1780, we are not a new, unstable colony in a new and unstable world. in case no one here has a calendar, its the year 2008. some things have changed between the Boston Tea Party and today.
Americans can't understand how the rest of the world can look at us like backwards idiots.. yet so many here (you know... in "the worlds greatest democracy") insist they need guns just in case they need to start shooting their own soldiers. thats simply so far beyond insane that it defies description.
why stop using that logic for simple guns? it doesn't make sense because there is no parity of force. why not just start arguing that you need tanks, planes, surface to air missile systems, a navy and air force and army to protect yourself from the navy, air force and army?
"patriotism" is an all too convenient disguise for "insanity".
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