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Re: An armed society...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:52:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > > What if a society is mature enough to decide that guns have no place in the
> > > community? Is that society no longer "free"?
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> > > Scott A
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> > Of course they're still free... until someone comes and takes that freedom
> > away. Then those "free" people might wish they had the means to keep that
> > freedom.
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> Strange that you view that as an eventuality rather than a possibility.
Yes, it is an eventuality. History repeats itself. Slavery in America
would have been far different (and purhaps nonexistent) had the Africans
been armed. The Jews may have avoided the Holocaust. An entire nation may
not have been forced to build the pyramids. History shows that an unarmed
society is prone to enslavement. It matters not the technology level.
I
> prefer life in a society where we are able to take the decision to live
> largely without guns.
Where *you* have the decision or the government?
Earlier, somebody said they needed a gun for
> protection from the big bad government and his neighbours. That does not
> sound like freedom to me – it sounds like the exact opposite.
It is *insurance*. Without an armed society to *assist* its government in
the making of its laws, then the skies the limit as to how far the govenment
goes.
I prefer to
> keep Lego under my bed – not a gun. How about you? ;)
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> Scott A
If push comes to shove, I'll take the gun. Those LEGO bricks are NOT going
to keep me free.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: An armed society...(what if?)
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| With every gun debate I see/read, it seems to me more people would rather live unarmed. I seems likely to me that, within my lifetime, guns will be outlawed from private citizens. Why do I think this likely? Because I just don't see enough people (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Nonsense. (...) What about the native americans, were they not armed? (...) Not me personally. The community I live in. (...) Democracy is the limit. In the UK governments have fallen due to protests, not armed rebellion. When will the USA (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Strange that you view that as an eventuality rather than a possibility. I prefer life in a society where we are able to take the decision to live largely without guns. Earlier, somebody said they needed a gun for protection from the big bad (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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