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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)influences" or whatever and they are going to do that BECAUSE of guns.
I didn't delegate that authority to you; I don't care how high-minded you try to make it sound. YOU are the one taking something I didn't give to you, that makes you Stalin and Hitler. I did NOT tell you that you are my/our militia.
You get more than 1 vote a year. There are millions of opportunities to affect what is happening that you reject and refuse to do that work and the reason you reject those responsibilities is because you have a gun, so you'll just wait until YOU decide that it is "necessary" to fix everything that is wrong whenever you and yours decide, no matter what that costs, and what the rest of us think of any of that be damned.
You also make the mistake of thinking everyone is like you and your simple minded "solutions", abdicating all responsible involvement and just getting mad at you "for suggesting that people may rise up one day to give (me) that voice BACK." How utterly condescending and paternalistic of you. You're just like the worst things you claim about government that you hate. If I wanted that kind of "help", I'd own a gun and you assume that I'm too stupid to make that "smart" decision, so you're going to do me a favor and make it for me.
Wrong.
By your dependence upon and assumptions about guns and ultimate violence, you PROMOTE conditions of alienation and disengagement from the authentic struggle for freedom, then you bitch about the conditions that alienation and disengagement produce, and then you try to SELL me the very pesudo-remedy that isn't a remedy at all, but is rather a CAUSE of the problem in the first place: violence.
You sir are the problem, made triply dangerous by the fact that you don't recognize or admit that you are the problem & claim a PRIVILEGE to the ultimate violence there is without consulting anyone but the other fascists who agree with you.