Re: Convince Me

I don't recall the NRA championing the left's call for the banning of assault rifles.  Just the opposite would be accurate.

 

 

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:04 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

I am a single gay man who holds a more Centrist view.  I think gun
ownership rights are guaranteed by the 1st amendment, but I think the
NRA is an abomination.  Who really needs an assault rifle?

The NRA works AGAINST Amendment II -- for the most part.
Who needs an assault rifle?  Well, those Business Owners
during the Rodney King riots may have benefitted.

  The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
  keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
  themselves against tyranny in government.
     -- Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776

I was a proponent of Obama's universal healthcare plan.  As someone
who has had cancer, and now can't get health insurance that will cover
that, I'm troubled by the fact that Republicans fought this so
fiercely. I don't think a national health care plan would have
required you to give up any of your "cadillac" plans, so what was the
all  the resistance about?

The Republican resistance?  That their name was not on the legislation.

Why should people be FORCED (ie. slavery) to provide things for others?



Regard$,
--MJ

The power of the statists to exercise unrestrained force against people goes to the essence of all political systems.  Being defined  even by political "scientists"  as an entity that exercises a monopoly on the use of violence within a given geographic area, the state must continue to exercise such unquestioned powers, particularly at times when its credibility and respect are in rapid decline.  The people employed to carry out such powers  be they police officers, TSA employees, militarists, bureaucrats of various stripes, etc.  are the kinds of sociopaths who are eager to exercise such unrestricted violence against others.  The state is the playground bully writ large, and state officials are unwilling to hold their bullies accountable for their wrongs because, to do so, would be to deny the very monopoly status that defines their system. -- Butler Shaffer

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