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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Hey, the next time we do this, could we PLEASE cover ONE DAMN QUESTION per thread? It takes frickin' FOREVER to keep up with reading this stuff, not to matter making it damned difficult to tell who's responding to who about what, when. Now somebody brough up the bit about why does snybody need high-end weaponry. That's a good question, which I'll attempt to answer. #1. The bad guys already have the stuff, and since its easy for them (especially the drug traffickers) to import, they don't have to worry about getting US-made stuff. In fact, now, they can buy it as old USSR surplus. #2. It's not just the scumbag down the street you have to worry about. Despite our American 'but -we're- civilized, that could never happen here' mentality, some of us still believe -- with some reason, that we can't always put all our trust in the people who are supposed to be running things. Hell, it wasn't bandits that the Founders fought against, it was, as some would put it today, 'their legitimate government.' Some of this has been borne out in recent actions. Note the rampant police corruption coming to light in Los Angeles. It's not so much the robbers in their neighborhood they worry about as it is the robbers among our legislature. #3. Just in case the Fundies, or any other fanatical group at ANY end of the political spectrum, DO actually someday manage to wrest power by 'fooling most of the people some of the time,' I want my stand against them to mean something, and a guy with heavy weaponry can go out in a bigger blaze of glory than a rock-chucker. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] ((Edit: You know, that's funny. I sound like a Fundie up until point #3. Maybe I should tone down the rhetoric a little. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] )) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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