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Old 05-18-11, 06:48 AM   #2
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Oh, the holy golden fetish gets touched again!

If they do not let me have hundreds of rounds and a semi-automatic rifle plus a 15-shot-magazine pistol on each floor of my house for self-defence, than I am no man anymore!

Oh, I meant to say: if I cannot wage private battle against hordes of monsters from the ghettos all around and am denied the capability to slaughter them by the hunbdreds, then I am not free a citizen in this country anymore!

For defending your family, choosing an appropriate liviung place is the best thing, if that option is available. For defending your house or yourself, you do not need machineguns and who knows what else. A single pistol does the job in the overwhelming majority of cases.

I do not buy the self-defence argment. It is an alibi for wanting to continue to hail the great fetish in American historxy and society: weapons. Its an obsession. The only case/film when the fat man really was right from A to Z, was Bowling for Columbine. And his diagnosis was: craving for drama, and a very basic, very disconnected-from-reality fear of that drama one is craving for.

Call it shizophrenia.

I have turned in recent years from opposing private gun owning, to tolerating it. But with limits:
No military items. No MG/MP-type weapons, no automatic rapid fire weapons. Hunting guns in hunting grounds and for farmers only. Self-defence: limited to the borders of own property, one weapon (pistol or revolver) per property. No carrying of arms in public space, no concealed weapons in public space. Mandatory regular training in a shooting club (like sports pilots must file x numbers of flight hours per quarter of the year), and when asking for a license, a police record check and a psychological assessment. Brutally pushing back the profit-craving firearms industry that tries its best to turn people into gun-craving addicts. No special ammunition on public sale, for exampel so-called cop-killer ammunition and armour breaking ammunition.

Self-defence is just this: self defence. The monopoly for using violence/force in all other cases, should be with the law-enforcement.
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