But you've yet to provide a purpose these weapons serve other than mass killings. I doubt you come up with anything yet. I understand the fright wings spin on the issue, but I haven't heard a reasonable, legitimate reason why society needs assualt weapons available to it. Work on it and get back to us.
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
"Society" doesn't need them.
"Society" has the armed forces to protect itself.
Weapons are necessary to protect those who would resist oppression, including the oppression that gets legitimacy from the bleatings of sheep as long as the sheep are in the "majority."
I think if I could go back in history and remove one thinker from our past, it wouldn't be Mao or Keynes or even Marx. It would be that bloody Frenchman Rousseau who started us down this route with his natterings about "social contracts" and the like.
The state will always have superior force until that moment when its armies decide to join the revolt. That fact has been true ever since humans decided to organize themselves in groups larger than small villages. But the fact that those who would fight oppression are going to be outgunned is not an argument that they should be unarmed.
Funny thing, I seem to remember something about this little country somewhere where every home pretty much has automatic weapons in it. Not semi-automatics, automatics. What's that country again? And, no, I am *not* talking about Israel.
Pfft.
Sorry, I promised to stay under my rock, didn't I. But I effing hate grading and I still have several inches of it needing to be done. That always makes me cranky.
You can all go back to arguing about the wrong issues again.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)