--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Dean Forster wrote:
> >
> > If violence is fundamental to human nature, what
> > better way to ensure justice than to level the
> playing
> > field? Every able bodied citizen is part of the
> > militia in the US. The reasons for that are much
> > deeper than states vs fed.
>
> I don't want a gun. I don't want to need a gun. I
> don't want to feel unsafe
> because I don't have a gun.
You're going to have to move to an alternate universe.
There is no such thing as absolute safety, and
striving for it is ludicrous. Along the way you're
going to have to give up a lot, until eventually
you'll have to start giving up things that you care
about. I care about personal freedom, so i'm drawing
the line at personal firearm ownership. If you don't
want a gun, that's fine. There's a very good chance
that you won't need one in your lifetime.
Before someone else takes the opportunity to take me
out of context again, I don't want Doug to live in
fear, nor would I if i didn't own a gun. But I would
hope that if I lived next to Doug and he knew me, he
would sleep a little better at night knowing that I
was near. With my gun. =P
Do I have a right to
> not have a gun?
Not in the Government of Dean! muuhuuhaa! *sigh* In
the US government, you already know the answer.
Am I
> destined to live in fear if I live in a state that
> encourages everyone to pack
> heat so that the "playing field" is level? Further,
> where does it end?
> Should bus drivers carry? School teachers? Sunday
> school teachers? High
> school kids? If you say that the age limit is 18,
> does that mean that 18 year
> old high school students can pack?
>
> I think that the notion of people carrying weapons
> everywhere to "level the
> playing field" is rather cartoonish myself. In any
> case, with a cell phone, a
> pager, a laptop, and a PDA (not to mention the
> godforsaken glasses I need to
> correct my suckass 47 year old vision) I've got way
> too much to carry around
> anyway. 8^)
>
My point is that personal firearms ownership should be
an option, it allows people who want to take
responsibility for themselves to do so. It would seem
obvious by now that my viewpoint isn't advocating the
unsafe posession of firearms. It's not that i think
they're neato cool so i want one, and a jetski too. I
don't walk around my house waving it around thinking
'wow, i could shoot something if i wanted to!'. I
look on it as a medical kit or a spare tire- it's
there if needed.
No one is going to force responsibility for your
personal safety on you, you have every *right* to
pacifism or a simple dislike of firearms. And if
you're wondering, I don't think less of people that
don't have a gun, they just have a different outlook
on life or different beliefs. Tolerance is good, so
i'd appreciate it if you'd tolerate the freedoms that
you don't take advantage of still existing. I
remember that old Russian comedian contrasting his old
country with the US (circa '85). "In Russia, you
assume that you can't do anything unless you're
specifically told you can. In the US, you can do
anything unless you're told you can't." He wasn't
talking about guns at all.
dean forster
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