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Four Gun Rights Arguments We Need to Stop Making
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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... "But I think the rest of us can have a discussion about what the best policy on guns is without involving those in mourning. Doing so isn’t some sinister attempt to 'never let a crisis go to waste' or politicize or exploit the tragedy; it’s entirely appropriate to talk about what can be done to minimize derailments after a train goes off the tracks ... We can do the same with guns, without descending into name-calling, and without trying to get those who have lost loved ones take a side in the debate."
"That said, as a supporter of gun rights, I’d like to see us get rid of some of the bad arguments for owning and carrying guns that are once again getting attention:" ... |
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mickey
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| "I'm a supporter of gun rights, I just don't support using logical arguments in favor of gun rights" |
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| "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1 "Arrest") |
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