03-10-2004, 03:52 PM
Hi,
In an ideal world, there'd be no guns
There were no guns for a damn long time. So people who could afford to spend all their time training fro war, who had the means to buy weapons, horse, and armor ruled by force and their personal whim. It was the gun that made people "equal". It was the rise of personal weapons readily and widely available that made democracy possible (and, yes, that includes the democracies of ancient Greece). Pick any "right" in any country and you can trace it back to blood shed to buy it.
Don't weaken your argument by accepting the fallacious statement of the loud and shrill. The right to be armed, the right to fight for one's rights and protect one's life and property requires no excuses. Those who deny this deny their history and disrespect the memory of the very people that gave them the right to express an opinion in the first place.
--Pete
In an ideal world, there'd be no guns
There were no guns for a damn long time. So people who could afford to spend all their time training fro war, who had the means to buy weapons, horse, and armor ruled by force and their personal whim. It was the gun that made people "equal". It was the rise of personal weapons readily and widely available that made democracy possible (and, yes, that includes the democracies of ancient Greece). Pick any "right" in any country and you can trace it back to blood shed to buy it.
Don't weaken your argument by accepting the fallacious statement of the loud and shrill. The right to be armed, the right to fight for one's rights and protect one's life and property requires no excuses. Those who deny this deny their history and disrespect the memory of the very people that gave them the right to express an opinion in the first place.
--Pete
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