I've been interested in the gun debate, or lack of it, on FB, and although I rarely post about it, my biggest annoyance with this, after our complete inability to actually have a debate due to the extremely high level of misinformation and reflexive screams of "GUNS! Their comin to tak r GUNS!" is this bizarre idea that we're going to need small arms to fight off the tyranny of our heavily militarized police and military forces. It's never clear how this is supposed to happen, especially since, duh - drones, hello? - but I ran across someone who's carrying on a fairly reasoned debate with a few people who disagree with him but seem actually rational. He was trying to clarify a point, and made some statements I wish I saw in the mainstream media. I'm quoting him below:
"I'm still trying to imagine how guns protect people from "tyranny". Aside from an imaginary alternative universe where the US military gets deployed against the US citizenry, and in which the members of our military are actually *complicit* in this, I just can't see it. And honestly, if that was to happen, what makes anyone think that their pea shooters would be any match against a DRONE ARMY that can fire bunker-busting missiles with pinpoint accuracy from miles away? The whole thing is just so unbelievably laughably ridiculous. Or at least it would be if it wasn't so terrifying how many well-armed US citizens honestly believe that Obama is the living Antichrist and they are soldiers fighting in the actual End of Days Apocalypse as extensions of a holy army against the Satanists: gays, atheists, and muslims." "my point is simply that by the time we get to point where there's guerilla warfare between citizens and government forces, the guns have basically failed to do their "job" of keeping away "tyranny". And if there's some pretense that the defensibility of a populace with basic weapons against a government military somehow keeps governments in-line... I think the vast majority of the heavily-armed citizens of big swaths of Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe who have been at war with government forces for the last few decades would seriously beg to differ. If we reach THAT point... then we are well beyond the point of no return. And I just think that ironically, the ONLY issue that people get upset over enough to reach that point is the guns themselves. It's a circular logic.... we need our guns to protect us from the people who want our guns and we will use our guns to do so. Also, the presence of guns hasn't thus far scared the government or corporations from screwing us in the ass as much as they want. The whole situation reads to me more like the government knows better than to take away the guns because the appeasement of having guns is the only thing keeping the people with guns satisfied enough that they don't actually rebel. It's like rap music and malt liquor for white people." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
