Re: The Armed Citizen - Missouri

"Some Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "David Lentz" <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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> >
> >
> > Some Guy wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > 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.

.....I'm just sitting here thinking how you would have sounded as a Jew in
1930's Germany.

Somehow, I don't think your faith in the government would have been
justified.