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@110. goy:

You claim “guns do need to be widely available for the population to be safe from tyranny.” Really? What good are these guns when you insist on ignoring the history of actual tyranny, as practiced by by leftist ideologues throughout the 20th Century? Answer: none.

If you’re going to ask me a question, don’t pretend it is rhetorical. And if you want to talk about the history of actual tyranny, you’ll need to open your eyes – leftist ≠ authoritarian. If you keep pretending that tyranny comes from the left, you will be blind to the authoritarians who swoop in from the far right to fill power-vacuums. Tyranny is, by nature, a right-wing, top-down system.

You ignore the glaring parallels between the current federal government and every tyranny of the last 100 years. And no amount of instruction or cajoling here or anywhere else is going to make you see it at this point. Your mind is simply snapped too tightly shut to acknowledge all the facts.

Hardly. I’ve observed our liberties under assault from the far right in the name of security, and have been consistent in protesting these abuses.

So when you write, “I’d like to have arms at the ready,” one can only laugh out loud. Really. The notion of you doing anything other than meekly handing those arms over to the authorities – when they tell you it’s for “your own good” or “for the greater good” or some other bogus excuse – simply strains credibility.

Really? I guess you don’t know me very well. I’m not exactly one to meekly accept the law as it is. I believe in and practice civil disobedience, and I understand that some laws are simply wrong, and should be disobeyed. You want to come claim my arms? Well, good luck with that. And to be blunt – any authority that wishes to abridge my fundamental liberties is going to get a fight.

And yes, the grassroots left does indeed run on greed: variously, the desire for retribution, for restitution, for redistribution of wealth, for reparations, for political power, and for the chance to impose their notion of “social justice” on others. Don’t kid yourself.

Universal health care, organized labor and a social safety net are not manifestations of “greed”. Social justice is necessary to the proper functioning of representative government. Greed is what drives a capitalist to alter the tax code, safety net and social justice for personal profit – don’t kid yourself.

Peace.

DS