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In reply to the discussion: Can Extreme Gun Control Coexist with Equality Under the Law? [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)How did you find the brass nerve to actually post it?
By your argument every weapon; mechanical, projectile, chemical and nuclear; must be allowed the general population otherwise it is only an "Elite" who can be protected by them. Additionally, are you proposing that every person be given a high grade weapon no matter what their psychology, their physical ability or their personal preference? If you are not so generous then your argument collapses in a cascade of contradiction. Under your schema pacifists would be considered unfit to be members of your ideal republic.
If Ms O'Donnell lives in a world where assassins and psychopaths can obtain weapons on a whim why is it that she is guilty of hypocrisy for ensuring that her family is protected? Your emotionally crippled demonisation of her is breathtaking in its arrogance.
Then you cite a criminally uncontrolled police force as evidence that guns were necessary for the protection of a civilian population yet you conveniently ignore the fact that there were guns in the possession of civilians in New Orleans, and those weapons were of no use whatsoever against the murderers and criminals who denied egress from the city. Indeed, if memory serves, the police were observed and assisted by civilians from the wards they denied to others.
I could continue at great length about you irrational diatribe but what is the point? You have become fixed in your opinion that all places in the world that benefit from gun control are hell-holes of privilege and inequality and I suspect nothing will change that illusion. If it is pointed out that the current world champion of privilege and inequality seems to be the USA, which you profess to love, that point would not penetrate your blind obedience to the rulers you are supporting. All you are is a wet dream of the publicists supporting the elites that you pretend should be limited by threat of violence.