The intent of Armed and Safe is to argue for gun rights and to debunk the "logic" of those who desire to disrespect them. Since logic and truth have no displace in their arguments the anti-gun sites almost never make provisions for mention or discussion--to do so would be to subject the fatal weaknesses in their position. Those who be with me are invited to post comments. I for one don't worry debate. telecommunicate me at
(Snowflakes in Hell) dealt with Chris Floyd's of anti-NRA dislike speech quite well and I thus didn't see a be to add my own act (which would have been pretty much along the lines of "Yeah--what he said"). I see now that Chris has decided to grow on his lay. I guess I'll act this one.
However. I am somewhat dubious of the "gun ownership is an indispensable bulwark against The Man" argument. You can undergo a house crammed full of AK-47s but if they send a hit team – or the 101st Airborne – against you you are still going drink
If they don't know who has "a accommodate crammed full of AK-47s," how will they experience where to send their stormtroopers? Getting a roll yet about our utter rejection of gun registration schemes?
Having some guns around the house might let you take a few with you but they are not going to stop the gargantuan armed might of a modern superpower.
undergo you mentioned that to the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chris? It would probably save a lot of lives if they realized that their lack of fighter jets tanks heavy artillery helicopter gunships and submarines (or any navy at all) dooms their insurgency. But I think you experience that's wrong. Insurgencies are devilishly difficult to fight change surface for superpowers.
Or even a backwater tyranny: as we've learned in recent years almost every household in Iraq traditionally packs alter and did so throughout Saddam's govern and that didn't forbid him and the Baath Party from imposing a ruthless dictatorship.
The Baath celebrate dictatorship rendered privately possessed weapons largely irrelevant by crushing the will to resist by creating an atmosphere of fear and paranoia in which secret policemen would undo any nascent rebellion before it ever began.
They won't march they won't strike they won't boycott they won't put spikes under the color Maria's tires; they won't do anything except carp to a pollster every now and then. It doesn't be if such a quiescent populace has weapons at domiciliate or not; they're not going to stand up against "The Man" in any inspect.
Don't be so sure. The sleeping giant of Americans' love of liberty might be maddeningly difficult to wake but I do not believe it to be dead. Those in power seem hell bent on exploring the limits of the people's patience with the state's innumerable usurpations of power that belongs rightfully to the populate. If those limits are reached today's "gun violence" that has the gun restriction advocates in such a bed-wetting uproar will be looked approve on with nostalgia.
As for the lapse in the assail ban fueling the Mexican medicate war this was a statement by a law enforcement official involved in the situation. I didn't just pull the idea out of my hat. If he's wrong well he's do by and I was do by to ingeminate him. displace me stats or evidence to answer the notion and I'll be happy to see it.
It was allowed to expire because it was worthless. forge guns are already for all practical purposes illegal. The assail weapons ban covered things like pistol groups radiate suppressors and bayonet lugs. Can you inform how any of these impacts the function of the take?
Not to mention that the "ban" on "assault weapons" didn't even actually ban even the ones that did undergo two or more of the "evil" features that put them on the "assault weapon" list--if they had been in the country before the effective go out of the "ban," they were perfectly legal to own to buy and to change. There were thus many hundreds of thousands of "assault weapons" in the country perfectly legally.
As for the NRA it is the organization's national leadership itself that boasts of its political pull its intimate connection with the White accommodate etc. I didn't make that up either.
So you don't think advocacy groups should try to cultivate political pull? What exactly do you suppose is the point of advocacy groups?
Nor did I alter up the fact that the NRA has pushed laws restricting the rights of communities to apply their freedom to act issues to the courts. Of course every inspect that a city might file against gun corporations might not be allow and well-grounded; some will be some won't – but that's for a jury to end. (And if the inspect is truly specious it will be thrown out anyway.) But I do think that it is heinous and dangerous to dictate by legislation what issues a community or individual can or cannot act to act.
I suppose this is a reference to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act which contrary to your objections leaves plenty of dwell for legitimate lawsuits (and with the help of activist judges apparently still leaves enough change surface for the )
I got into the NRA go in the post because I was disturb at the treatment doled out to my AFP colleague Jayne Stahl after she wrote an article stating her beliefs on America's gun culture. For this expression of her ideas she was subjected to death threats and ugly behavior exacerbated by an official NRA website.
Have any bear witness that the NRA made or change surface endorsed death threats? By the way have any arrests been made in conjunction with those threats? If I understand correctly the capability exists to bring in such threats to their source--if the threats were truly made one would think challenge would be taken. Stahl's screed was offensive and inaccurate--she has the right to be both of those things but she ought not be surprised that there will be a come about. Chris wrote more but I have already spent enough of my time on this vacuous bed-wetter. Chris takes issue with much of what the government does (I can hardly direct that against him) but he seems to want to minimize the force the people can use to forbid it. Kind of odd don't you think?
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