Re: The Armed Citizen - Missouri

"David Lentz" <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Some Guy wrote:
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> > > > Gun registration is too inherently risky to risk in a free
> > > > society.  History has shown that gun registration enables gun
> > > > confiscation.  First the state asks you to register our firearms
> > > > and then the state takes them.   You can't argue it, because it
> > > > has happened too many times.
> > > >
> > > > The state has no need to know which of her citizens are armed or
> > > > not.
> > >
> > > Thank you sir!
> >
> > Which is the most realistic threat: government tyranny or armed
criminals?
> > Registration seems like a small thing to ask to reduce armaments in the
> > hands of thugs.
> >
> > Remember, its a democray so the government is supposed to perform the
will
> > of the people (if people participate). Criminals do us no such favors.
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> State tyrants are infinitely more dangerous than civilian
> tyrants.  The leading cause of death in the previous century was
> democide, the killing a country's citizens by her government.
> You look at the greatest murders of all time, Joseph Stalin, Mao
> Tse Tung, Pol Pot and they were state tyrants.  A free state can
> not exist where the state is armed but her citizens are not.
> Slaves are not allowed to own weapons.  Free men are.  Are you a
> man or a slave?  Don't bother to answer.
>
> David

Ok, I'll make a deal. You worry about the gummint coming to
black-helipcopter your motor home to a prison camp in New Mexico, and I'll
worry about paying for my kids education. To each his own.

SG