Gun Hoarding and Defense Spending....

[ehrnst]

[The Magistrate]

1. Interesting Take, Sir

The gross over-spending by our government on 'defense' can be seen as a sort of national, collective expression of the same urge that drives some individuals to feel a need to own dozens, scores, even hundreds of guns for 'defense' --- an urge no less suggestive of unreason and mental imbalance in a group than in an individual.

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. I have mentioned here before the correlation between the two and...

I believe that there is an element of unwarranted paranoia in our national psyche.

[onehandle]

2. Like they would have a chance...

[tama]

4. Ah, gun porn

Sorry, does not get me aroused.

[dairydog91]

5. Afghanistan: 11 years and counting.

For that matter, it's too bad you weren't there to give advice to British commanders in 1960s Ireland. Just think, they could have averted 30 years of guerrilla fighting if they'd simply used AC-130s to blow up entire blocks of Belfast.

[tama]

3. Two wings

The Banksters and MIC and Big Oil corporate wing, and the vaguely "libertarian"/"jeffersonian"/"constitutionalist" wing.

Congressmen can happily take their usual bribes from MIC etc. and use that money to advertise the populist voters that they will defend their constitutional right to have guns for protection from corrupt Government in Washington. While defending of course also the jobs in Defense Industry.