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Originally Posted by Catfish
I wonder why you afford a government, militia and police ?
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Government is there to do things collectively we can't do as individuals. That's it.
By "militia" did you actually mean armed forces? "Militia" means a group of armed citizens, which is the opposite of what you seem to want. Armed forces, on the other hand, are there to defend the state or country as a whole.
Police are ostensibly there to protect us, but unless (as was pointed out earlier) you have one policeman for each civilian acting as a bodyguard, that is impossible. Aside from the two who seem to hang out at the local grocery store I haven't seen a cop in several weeks.
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It is strange, i never connected the term, or the very idea of freedom, with carrying firearms.
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Freedom means exactly that - the ability to do anything you want, as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's ability to do the same. While I too think open carry can be a little silly, but how many people you see on the street are criminals? You don't know. If people want to protect themselves, fine.
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For me this carrying is connected to military, police, criminals and (if carried as a civilian) ahem - milquetoasts.
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I used to work with an ex-cop whose favorite saying was "If guns are outlawed, only the police will have guns. Do you feel safer now?"