Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter...
by krapp on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:15PM
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>Yes - but this is not a good thing! It's a bug not a feature!
From the point of view of many Americans, not only is it a feature, but the defining feature of a free state.
Then again, many Americans take to heart Jefferson's line about the 'Tree of Liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants' without realizing what he actually meant by referring to both patriots and tyrants as 'its natural manure.'
Yes - but this is not a good thing! It's a bug not a feature!
I started this thread mentioning Dunblane, but perhaps I should have mentioned the Easter Risings and the Good Friday Agreement instead. The UK had an armed uprising for decades in Northern Ireland and it was terrible. I can't seem to get any of the guns-are-important-for-fighting-the-government advocates to engage with this and look at what actually happened when people responded to civil and human rights violations with AR-15s and Semtex.