Originally Posted by Oracle
So which way would you prefer I use to poke holes in the "second amendment is to protect us from big brother" belief?
Large numbers of rifle armed militia are still quite effective. Not as much so as when the second amendment was written (at which point an armed population could easily fight the government) but it's still quite a threat.
It is interesting to see the US Gov't doing things that will surely label them as tyrannical. Restricting freedoms, removing guns, arming police, etc.
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Originally Posted by Ele
Do you get off on acting like this? It's not cool and witty, just childish.
On the question, no, I don't think so. Ferguson recieved a paramilitary response from the police, sure, but I don't think you can extract an isolated event and construct a trend from it.
I act like it because it's a pain in the ass having to argue with gun rights activists, and the Second Amendment argument has occurred in discussion more than a couple times now, and every time it's ended with me getting more and more frustrated with them. Most of the pro-gun posters are uninformed, abound with big brother conspiracy, claim liberal bias on anything that stands in opposition to their views, and frequently struggle to make a cohesive argument for their case. I have no patience with discussing the topic any more because of this.
And it's not just Ferguson. The U.S. military has sold a lot of it's hardware to law enforcement groups in an attempt to salvage some of the costs from the Iraq War. Ferguson put the usage of military hardware in the spotlight, but the proliferation of it in law enforcement groups has been going on for a few years now.
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woah man im not a gun activist or whatever i'm just saying i dont think the way protests and simple questioning of whats going on should be taken as a threat, resulting in less privacy and the fear of being arrested for nothing.
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Originally Posted by king4life
woah man im not a gun activist or whatever i'm just saying i dont think the way protests and simple questioning of whats going on should be taken as a threat, resulting in less privacy and the fear of being arrested for nothing.
Originally Posted by king4life
Well its constitutional to bear arms in case the government becomes out of control and don't fear the people anymore. Hm. Gonna be hard to defend ourselves. Seems like they're preparing for a civil war, not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything.
it certainly didn't come out that way.
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Originally Posted by king4life
woah man im not a gun activist or whatever i'm just saying i dont think the way protests and simple questioning of whats going on should be taken as a threat, resulting in less privacy and the fear of being arrested for nothing.
Maybe they shouldn't riot and loot if they don't want to be treated like criminals.
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