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for a police state to succeed in repressing the people they must insure that the people have no guns. Gun control is one of the first steps toward a police state.
What was it Ben Franklin said about those who would give up freedom for the sake of safety deserving neither?
If YOU want to be safe from guns, don't buy one, stay away from bars and bad tempered people who own guns, and stay out of areas where shooting are frequent. Then you'll be as safe as you possibly can be. All it takes to stay relatively safe is some common sense, and paying attention to possible risk factors.
Don't let the government us a few isolated incidents of gun violence be the excuse for confiscating citizen's guns like they use a few isolated terrorist attacks as an excuse for confiscating our right to privacy and our right to habeas corpus. This hysterical fear mongering is just a thinly veiled justification for disarming the population so they can be more readily controlled and herded without putting any resistance.
Bush yells "terror! terror!", and takes away our rights. Those who would strip us of our ability to defend ourselves from the government yell "Oh My God, somebody got shot!", to take away our rights.
Here's the facts: People fall off ladders and die. People crash their cars and die. People get bit by rattlesnakes and die. People get brutally beaten and die. People get stabbed and die. People open their own veins with razor blades and die. People choke on chicken sandwiches and die. People get shot and die. People grab the hair dryer while standing in the bathtub and get electrocuted and die. People fall through plate glass windows and die. People eat junk food until their arteries get so clogged they die. And on, and on, and on.
Does this mean we should outlaw ladders, and cars, and rattlesnakes, and baseball bats, and steak knives, and razor blades, and chicken sandwiches, and guns, and hair dryers, and plate glass windows, and junk food?
Disclosure: I owned a rifle for a few years right after I left the Air Force which I used only for recreational target shooting. (I couldn't imagine shooting an animal, unless it were absolutely necessary for my own survival.) Since then I have not owned a gun of any kind for the last 42 years. I don't really like guns, and I don't really want to have one. But I would be profoundly suspicious of a government that abridged my right to own a gun if I so choose.
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