Shooting of the Day
Shooting of the Day
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- robthelad-7
Governments arm the police and the military with every kind of weapon - while at the same time depriving citizens of the basic means of defending themselves.
Are you so afraid? That you'll give up your rights in the hope that your government will keep you safe?
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell
- Defend from what? other people with guns. Idiotic.Morning_star
- Look past the trees and you'll see the woods.robthelad
- You don't need protection from anything if you think and act exactly how you're expected to.robthelad
- Laws help dictate that expectation in a society.monospaced
- When laws remove human rights it becomes a dictatorship. We're being sold a future without human rights, and we're buying it.robthelad
- what human right are you talking about?monospaced
- Life, liberty, and property. How can a man protect himself against a government who can lock you up for an indefinite time for literally no reason.robthelad
- lol, you're fucking serious that automatic weapons are the thing that would prevent being imprisoned for crime?monospaced
- if so, then you're a lost causemonospaced
- No that's not what I said, try not to focus on the little things. Why would the government disarm its citizens? To keep good people safe from bad people...?robthelad
- Robthelad: He how talks in maxims....sounds smart.twentyfive
- I felt like you made the argument that we should have guns to protect ourselves from government and to protect our human rights, actuallymonospaced
- Guns are just the McGuffin. If you don't agree with me that's fine. I have no qualms.robthelad