If owning a gun is a right, should guns be subsidized for the low income?

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61. A very interesting post.

I would be all for the de-escalation of self defense from lethality to non-lethality (pepper sprays, even tasers).

And, if it were not for the vast and decades-old propaganda campaign for ever more lethal weaponry, I could support "legal but not customary". That is how it seems to work in Canada.

I can appreciate your examples, but I could produce equally compelling counter examples.

The issue for me is the huge ideological network that has been put in place in the US to de-legitmize the police, to encourage people to shoot first and ask questions later, to look the other way at the epidemic of abuse of minorities (NYPD stop and frisk, Oakland PD outright murder, Trayvon Martin and all the coded, racist Castle Doctrine bullshit, etc.). How far do you think a minority is going to get using a gun to defend himself against police violence?

Your post here is perfectly reasonable in 1960s Wyoming. It is not reasonable in Florida in 2012.

What have you got to say about the NRA, about the open trade in scratch buyers of guns for the Mexican gangs in Arizona?