Venezuela bans private gun ownership

[appal_jack]

100. Straw men & lies...

Look, Scootaloo, you're the only one bringing up "Red Dawn" & the "EBIL GUBBMINT." All I said was:

Me, I'll stick with the good ol' Jeffersonian/Tom Paine/Eleanor Roosevelt/Howard Dean American continuum of thought that has proven time & again that private firearms ownership is perfectly compatible with, and possibly essential for, true freedom.

(I corrected the grammar, which I can't do to the original post from this i-pad.)

Are you denying that America's ideal of personal freedom has included the right to keep & bear arms since its inception? If not, what's your point?

As for your notion that any totalitarian dictator is, by definition, right-wing & fascist? That is simply laughable. Stalin grew out of the Bolshevik revolution. I maintain that any revolutionary agenda, leftist or rightist, that does not embrace a core concept of rights and freedoms at its inception risks a veer toward totalitarianism. Communism's embrace of a 'dictatorship of the Proletariat' exemplifies this flaw. America's Founding Fathers, for all their shortcomings, got this point right in our revolution. Lenin got it wrong, which led to Stalin. The Khmer Rouge got it wrong, and that led to Pol Pot. Your willful denial of reality reeks of political correctness. I prefer my progressive values to be rooted in reality, thank you.

-app