From: EWyatt794@aol.com Date sent: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:42:18 EDT Subject: Re: [GUNS] Re: Better people To: extropians@extropy.com Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> In a message dated 6/9/99 8:39:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> joedees@bellsouth.net writes:
>
> << > > > a peaceful person needs to be free to work to support his life, and
> he needs
> > > > to be free to fight to defend it.
> > >
> > > No one needs to have weapons to kill people at a distance. The only
> > > reason to have them is to protect yourself from people who have them.
> > > Argh, shit, I'm being sucked into this stupid argument again!
> >
> > Its a matter of you refusing to acknowledge your own blind spots. Who
> protects you
> > from the government? From the criminals who do not obey your laws against
> gun
> > ownership? Get a new newscaster yet?
> >
> "Clem, get yer squirrel gun an' let's overthrow the gummint!"
> Sheesh! Every time someone puts this specious reasoning forth, it
> sounds more ridiculous (and don't bring the Swiss up; the main
> reason the Reich didn't invade them was that the Swiss were hiding
> their billions in stolen gold for them). >>
>
> I missed the specious reasoning. I thought "Who watches the watchers?" was
> still quite a conundrum for any "-archy" or "-cracy" theory. Could you please
> show us why it isn't? (or what the real specious reasoning was, if I've
> misunderstood)
>
> William
>
The only way to overthrow the government, and the way it is
periodically done, is by means of popular vote.