Re: GUNS for PROTECTION? SAFETY? SCALIA'S "Rationale" is LAUGHABLE!

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:16:03 -0700, "Roy Blanken****p"
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>"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Dan" <dan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > on 6/29/08 10:38 AM Jeff Strickland said the following:
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>> >> "Akneigh Wombuster" <lilhornie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>> The 5-4 Supreme Gun Court decision last week was, OF COURSE,
woefully
>> >>> deficient in its analysis, reading, and reasoning regarding the
Second
>> >>> Amendment.
>> >>>
>> >>> Only the gun nuts dispute that, but unfortunately, the nuts
comprise a
>> >>> bigger percentage of the U.S. population than even NASCAR numb-
>> >>> natterers.  The air-brained decision aptly fits the description of
the
>> >>> kind of idiocy that the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan might have had
in
>> >>> mind:  "boob bait for the bubbas."
>> >>>
>> >>> But just for chuckles, once again, let's revisit the imbecilic,
>> >>> childish, and intellectually vacant "argument" that "we NEED guns"
to
>> >>> protect ourselves and our families and homes.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The problem you seem to be ignoring is that once we cede one right,
>> >> another right goes on the chopping block, then another. This is the
>> >> liberal way. Liberals will look to the precident of taking this
>> >> fundamental right as a reason to take another fundamental right.
>Perhaps
>> >> Due Process should be striken or legislated away just because of the
>city
>> >> you live in.
>> >>
>> >> The court did not strike down reasonable regulation, it struck down
>> >> overly broad laws that strip rights from all citizens, even law
abiding
>> >> ones.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
>> > Well put.  And people make the mistake of arguing on current
>> > cir***stances.  What if the USA became very authoritarian with its
>> > citizens in future?
>>
>>
>> Exactly. What if it took the guns away, then became authoritarian? What
if
>> it took the guns away, then took due process away, then free speech.
AND,
>> what if they did it city by city. What if your rights are abridged
because
>> you live someplace, not because you forfieted your rights due to
feloneous
>> activity?
>
>Do you really think a bunch of plinkers are going to be able to stand up
to
>any government's forces? You live in a macho dream world. Our government
has
>already demonstrated to us by fraudulent elections and wars that we have
no
>control. Go watch Red Dawn again.
>
Can you really see the American military going up against 30 million
armed militia? Do you think they would kill us or join us in taking
our government back?