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

[GaYellowDawg]

61. Um, no.

That is a distortion of what I said.

I did not ever say, state, or imply that I wanted, desired, or dreamed for the US military to take out your neighborhood. Go back and read it again. Read it slowly. You might even want to try moving your lips as you're reading, if you're not already doing so.

You and your guns and those of your neighbors wouldn't make the army of Botswana hesitate, much less the United States Army. And let me preempt your next irrational response by saying, no, I am not advocating that the Botswanan army come to your neighborhood and kill you. I am saying that you and your guns aren't shit to an army. I'm saying that you and your guns probably wouldn't be shit to an L.A. street gang. I am saying that you vastly overestimate the impact of your guns and your neighbors' guns. I am saying that you and your stupid peashooter(s) are not the reason for liberty or democracy. Your gun doesn't count for shit, and your delusions of grandeur don't do a thing to change that.

You know what does count? What counts is that we live in a society in which our armed forces are made up of responsible citizens who would refuse orders to turn their weapons on you. I am endlessly grateful for that. The reason that our armed forces aren't given orders to take over the country has nothing to do with your gun. It has everything to do with the fact that the army would tell that politician to go fuck himself. And let me make it clear: I love the fact that our army wouldn't ever come attack my neighborhood, or your neighborhood. And I view them as natural allies of the Constitution and thereby the people, not the politicians. You can afford your pathetic dreams of resistance because you will never have to live them.