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meatcleaver -> RE: Supreme Court Looks at Gun Ownership (3/19/2008 9:46:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
A scared and defenseless population dependent on the government for everything is so much easier to control, regardless if that government is fascist or socialist.
SimplyMichael, I would beg to differ. A scared and defenceless population isn't easy to control, I think the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions show that, there comes a tipping point when no one gives a damn anymore. People acquiesced to the Fascist regimes of Europe because they had something to lose, there was never a critical mass of the population willing to throw everything away. Populations that are easiest to control, I would argue, are those populations with something to lose, i.e. we in the west. We gladly fall for any propaganda and accept almost anything in our name and then free ourselves from guilt by rationalizing it away. Guns are an irrelevent part to our acquiescence, our acquiescence is a fact. If we applied the same rules that were applied to the German fascists in Nuremburg, most post war American and British governments and one could probably add the French to that, would have probably ended up hanging from a tree. Guns haven't and won't change that, guns can't fight the all pervading propaganda and people's willingness to hold onto to what they have until they have nothing, is what makes the propaganda more powerful than guns.
I'm probably arguing against myself here by saying in the grand schem of things guns are an irrelevence.
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