Jon writes:
Did someone say that?
Well you are the one who has made the idiotic link between the right to bear arms and the ability to take on a superpower modern military.
Straggler writes:
What weapons do you think the citzenry should have access to?
Jon writes:
Whatever would be necessary to defend against an armed government.
Message 263
I still don’t know what level of armament you think the US military should have and whether or not you think the US citizenry should match that. Could you enlighten me on this specific point? What exact purpose do you think the citizenry possessing lots of guns achieves?
Jon writes:
As long as those methods continue to work.
Is democracy in the US most at risk from:
1) Economic disparity and the concentration of power that comes with concentration of wealth
2) Those with extreme political views who don’t consider the elected government American enough to be legitimate and who think that forcibly overthrowing said elected government is a legitimate way forwards
3) The government fostering an ever greater climate of fear in which civil liberties are ever diminished in the name of national security (whilst the most right wing of gun advocates avidly cheer them on)
4) The government deciding to forcibly impose it’s military might on the populace
Frankly 4) seems like a rather distant possibility compared to the others.
Jon writes:
Where is your evidence that such a mass of gun nuts even exists? Or that their views on sexuality are tied to their beliefs regarding gun ownership?
Am I wrong in thinking that there is a common cause and support between such organisations as the NRA, the Tea Party movement and the religious right in America? I can dig out the known links between these organisations in terms of funding and suchlike if you want — But are you actually denying that there is any link?
Jon writes:
Spoken like a true outsider who doesn't have a clue in hell what he's talking about.
Why Americans think that the question of whether or not prolific gun ownership in society is one that can only be debated as if Americans are somehow unique and evidentially isolated from the experience of the rest of the world baffles me.
It’s a debate board. Nothing you or I say here will change the second amendment. But that doesn’t remotely stop either of us considering whether or not modern interpretations of the 2nd amendment makes any actual sense in the modern world.