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03-15-2006, 04:38 AM (This post was last modified: 03-15-2006, 05:03 AM by kandrathe.)
Premezilla,Mar 14 2006, 01:06 AM Wrote:...    On another note, I think that people need to be smart about the whole "right for guns" issue.  I mean, look what happened at Columbine.  Kid brings gun to school and kills other kids.  I'm betting that those kids hadn't gone through gun education.  Now, I know gun education would probably mean nothing (I know that Driver's Education does not guarantee an improvement in driving skills) and in some cases, forcing people to sit through lectures they have no desire of hearing can only aggravate the situation.
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The "right to bear arms" is the way our founding fathers thought about enabling citizens to secure and defend their freedoms. Anti-gun activists would want to confuse the issue by extremes of anecdotal evidence, or trying to link gun rights to hunting. Guns are tools of death, and hand guns are mostly intended to be tools of human death. That right to secure ones own liberty, or the responsibility of every citizen to defend the Constitution makes some people very uncomfortable.

Patrick Henry proclaimed, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

The Alexis de Toqueville quote on Doc's sig that was commented on earlier expresses a similiar sentiment in essence that trading the mammon of comfort for the virtue of freedom is unacceptable. Better to be naked, hungry, and free than a sated slave.

As for your comment, "A couple billion people working towards a cause can accomplish a lot more than a bullet can." Well sure. A couple billion people working together would be a phenomenon I would like to see in my life as long as they were doing something constructive rather than destructive. Violence is a last resort of a failed political struggle, and is sometimes the only option other than complete surrender. Usually not, and definately not as often as some more hawkish politicians would argue.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.

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