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JDPriestly

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4. Their theory that they can enforce their property rights with their guns does not work well.

Reply to Erose999 (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 04:47 PM

Apr 2013

It results in chaos, crime, deaths, war, civil strife -- and not in the domestic tranquility that is promised in the Preamble of the Constitution.

They are wrong. They would never be able to enforce their property rights without the government or against the government. That is just a foolish idea. A number of gun-nuts have tried it. Think Koresh for example. They always fail. They will always fail. Eventually, they will fail. You have to have the support of a social contract that includes all the people around you. You have to have the civic power to enforce your property rights.

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Re:Koch Bros. Let's say your worth $50,000 [View all] edhopper Apr 2013 OP

I posted this in response to someone who said that taxes should not be raised to require JDPriestly Apr 2013 #1

Thanks for the edhopper Apr 2013 #2

Thank you. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #5

The GOP dickheads would just say that they enforce their own property rights with their gunz. Of Erose999 Apr 2013 #3

Their theory that they can enforce their property rights with their guns does not work well. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #4