RE: RE: Alarming statistics.

["Dom de Bechi" <dddl21455@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peace and crime-free cities are indeed a long way off. But I have never
needed to own a gun to exercise my rights. I just don't subscribe to the
"Safety is a loaded AK" mentality. To draw an analogy to the Nazis by taking
guns off the people is hardly realistic, although this probably does appeal
to those die-hards who don't want to lose the 2nd Amendment.

The last time I checked, the way to remind a government that they are in
power for the people is through the ballot box, not through possession of
weapons.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Murray [mailto:themurray512@netscape.net]
Sent: 01 July 2001 17:28
To: millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: RE: Alarming statistics.


> I am not promoting an armed insurrection. No government has - or will -
> exist(ed) forever.
>
> -Eric>

If the citizens do not have arms, then they really don't have any "rights."
The government has all means of force and no government run by man will ever
be perfect as bad apples will come into power (see Nazi Germany - they took
all of their citizen's guns - would you refuse to join their party and risk
death?).

Some days the government needs to be reminded that they are there in power
for the benefit of the people they rule and not just for their own wants.
It would be foolish to believe that if all guns are taken away that peace
and crime reduction will come hand in hand.
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Eric Murray
"[T]he whole point of the doomsday machine is lost...if you keep it a
secret! Why didn't you tell the world, ay?!"  Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
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