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Guns still protect our freedom!
jonk
Member Posts: 10,121
TO all those quacks who say, "I understand how guns protected people in the colonial days, when there were only a few thousand people in each state, when wild animals were loose, and when the poor defenseless Native American was forced into unwilling conflict (!) but come on. Then people could easily match the standard military arms, i.e. a musket. But now, do you expect everyone to own a nuclear bomb? I mean come on, we can't check the military's power any longer!"To those people I say their analogy is flawed. Did the average colonial own a man of war, a cannon, or other powerful weapon? No. Our freedom was defended because he posessed a weapon equal to that of the enemy's footsoldier; a rifle and/or musket. Just as the soldier of yesteryear didn't have to have a battleship to counter the Brits to defend freedom, so to do we not have to have nuclear weapons, merely the equal of the military's standard... i.e., AK, M-16, etc. Why could Hitler never have invaded the US even if he had beaten us militarily? Because unlike in Europe, where people had no history of owning guns, and had no choice but to become refugees or bend under his will, Americans had guns. Had nazi soldiers invaded the US., every kid with a .22 would have been a rooftop sniper opposing them. They wouldn't have gotten ten miles from the beaches! In the same way, unfettered ownership of firearms today still ensures that we will never be invaded by a foreign power, nor subjugated by our own government.Just my two cents.
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.