Ban guns? I have ONE word to answer that notion... HALABJA

[GaYellowDawg]

38. Oh, bullshit.

You don't have anywhere near the capability for firepower that our country's army does. One bunker buster, and your entire neighborhood is gone, and your guns and your neighbor's guns would have fuck-all to do with that. If you think you and your peashooter are all that stands between us and a military takeover of the country, then you are living in a complete dream world.

Do you honestly think that your guns and your neighbors' guns are a thin steel line that prevents a rapacious government from killing us all or having its way with us? If so, why the fuck are you here and not on Free Republic? They are the ones that think that the government is this monolithic, faceless monster slavering to enslave us all, held only in check by a peashooter in the hands of Joe the plumber. Or Joe the Cherokee who thinks he's progressive.

Personal gun ownership is not what prevents our army from running roughshod over us. It is the fact that we have an army that, on the whole, is full of good people who would be horrified at the thought of oppressing their countrymen and would refuse orders to do so. It is the fact that we are, on the whole, a people who respect the rule of law, not the rule of guns. You and your toys have nothing to do with liberty.