Please Be Brave Enough To Respond To This Poll

[Egalitarian Thug]

32. Your reply led me to believe that your intention in this poll has something to do with guns.

From your reply: "I find the NUANCE in JUSTIFYING the MURDER of INNOCENTS...
Extremely tiresome, depressing, and... ultimately cowardly... and Un-American."

I've been conscientiously avoiding the invasion of the gungeon in GD for what seems like months, primarily because my opinion pisses everybody off. However, Benjamin Franklin has been a person of interest to me for most of my life and consequently I've learned quite a bit about him and the times he lived in.

The quotation you used in the poll is best understood, IMO, in the context of this exchange at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787; When queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation, A lady asked Dr. Franklin "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it." We didn't.

Since that time we have long since turned away from the nation Dr. Franklin and the other "radical terrorists" envisioned, and became, from what I gathered from decades of research, a sad and pathetic imitation of what they first proposed we reject. We replaced a King with a class, a thoroughly corrupt Parliament with a thoroughly corrupt Congress, and instead of embracing the ideal of individual, secular liberty, we deified what they did accomplish and smothered it under the superstitious idiocy of divine intervention.

So you see, I think that trying to apply what he wrote then with what we have now is not really applicable.

Thus, my avoidance of this latest exercise in mental masturbation and distraction.