Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
Guns give me the creeps and I don't allow them in my home. Nonetheless I am comforted by the knowledge that many of my neighbors have them, when the government starts breaking down doors in the middle of the night looking for transfatty acids or gay marriage licenses.
In any case, this is not the Third Reich or the Soviet Union. We don't have draconian law enforcement (yet). Drugs are for sale in our schools and our prisons, so I don't see how we expect to curtail the availability of guns.
Right here in the metropolitan area of the nation's capital, it's as if the cops have permission to use civilians for target practice. Shooting at us, invading our homes, running us down with their cars. Hardly a month goes by without someone being wrongly killed by a cop (more like two or three days if you count dead dogs, their favorite target), and exactly ZERO of these bastards have been punished. In fact they're all back on duty, still carrying guns.
Just a few months ago the county police sent a SWAT team to the home of the mayor of a small town, without even doing their homework to see who lived there. It was a drug bust based on research they actually knew was flawed, but they pursued it anyway just for the fun of it. They terrorized the family and murdered their two dogs in cold blood--an autopsy proved that one had been shot from behind while running away. Cops like that have voluntarily seceded from civilization and surrendered their right to complain about what the citizens do to them. To qualify for a job like that you're expected to be just a tiny bit better than the rest of us, not a whole lot worse.
If it's like this everywhere, then golly gee, it's no big surprise to me that some of the more unstable people are finally starting to shoot back. How else do they take back their own country? Perhaps you're right and it is a revolution. A revolution against the civil "servants" whose salaries they pay. You begin to understand why Sicilians in the old days didn't rise up against the Mafia that was running their island. They at least tried to minimize collateral damage. Cops revel in it.
Most cops do nothing but give traffic tickets and pursue the war on drugs, both of which are merely revenue generators for municipal governments. Speeding tickets these days are up into the hundreds of dollars, and "asset forfeiture" has become a slick way to seize top-end cars and other valuable property without due process from people who are never prosecuted.
In any case, this is not the Third Reich or the Soviet Union. We don't have draconian law enforcement (yet). Drugs are for sale in our schools and our prisons, so I don't see how we expect to curtail the availability of guns.
The murder rate in the cities of 21st century America is something like two entire orders of magnitude lower than it was in European cities five hundred years ago--when guns were rare. So no, there is no revolution brewing, at least not if this is what you interpret as the harbinger.
The cops have not exactly been endearing themselves to us lately. The War on Drugs has finally recreated Prohibition-Era America, with cops running out of control who are nothing more than unaccountable, incompetent, swaggering thugs.
Right here in the metropolitan area of the nation's capital, it's as if the cops have permission to use civilians for target practice. Shooting at us, invading our homes, running us down with their cars. Hardly a month goes by without someone being wrongly killed by a cop (more like two or three days if you count dead dogs, their favorite target), and exactly ZERO of these bastards have been punished. In fact they're all back on duty, still carrying guns.
Just a few months ago the county police sent a SWAT team to the home of the mayor of a small town, without even doing their homework to see who lived there. It was a drug bust based on research they actually knew was flawed, but they pursued it anyway just for the fun of it. They terrorized the family and murdered their two dogs in cold blood--an autopsy proved that one had been shot from behind while running away. Cops like that have voluntarily seceded from civilization and surrendered their right to complain about what the citizens do to them. To qualify for a job like that you're expected to be just a tiny bit better than the rest of us, not a whole lot worse.
If it's like this everywhere, then golly gee, it's no big surprise to me that some of the more unstable people are finally starting to shoot back. How else do they take back their own country? Perhaps you're right and it is a revolution. A revolution against the civil "servants" whose salaries they pay. You begin to understand why Sicilians in the old days didn't rise up against the Mafia that was running their island. They at least tried to minimize collateral damage. Cops revel in it.
Most cops do nothing but give traffic tickets and pursue the war on drugs, both of which are merely revenue generators for municipal governments. Speeding tickets these days are up into the hundreds of dollars, and "asset forfeiture" has become a slick way to seize top-end cars and other valuable property without due process from people who are never prosecuted.
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