On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 10:59, Net Llama! wrote: >> Crushing constitutional & civil rights is far worse than the evils >> committed by prior administrations. > > And if the Dems come into power.... what will they do to the 2nd > amendment? > > There are evils on both sides of the aisle.
Its funny how the only ammendment that the Republicans care about is their right to arm themselves. Who cares if you can be imprisoned forever without a trial, as long as you can carry a gun around before they lock you up & throw away the key. What I've never understood (and would genuinely like to understand) is how the right to bear arms benefits anyone? Sure, you can hunt animals in the woods, but I've never heard anyone getting fired up over the potential loss of that right. Most folks get very ticked off that they lose their right to defend themselves. What exactly are you defending yourself from? Unless I'm missing something (and perhaps I am), the only time a gun benefits you is when the person attacking you has a smaller/weaker gun, or no gun at all. And as we all know, in an arms race, there are no winners, only losers. When it comes down to it, unless you distrust the govt, such that you feel that you're going to need to defend yourself from their attack, what good is a gun going to do you? And if the govt is coming after you, the odds of you having sufficient & large enough weapons & ammo are just about nil. So, can someone actually help me to understand all of this? I honestly would like to understand it better. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
