[ExI] right to try bill

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Monday, 26 September 2016, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] right to try bill
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> On 26 September 2016 at 09:34, spike <spike66 at att.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','spike66 at att.net');>> wrote:
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>  >>…  Grabbing our guns would enable unlimited subsequent power grabbing,
> for constitutional rights could be suspended without consequence.  That
> would be the ultimate power, the unholy grail for a power grabber.
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> >…Surely you don't believe that the reason the Government is not more
> tyrannical is that they worry the police and soldiers they would send out
> to subdue the population would get shot at? -- Stathis Papaioannou
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> Kinda the opposite.  The government is not more tyrannical because they
> worry the police and soldiers they send out to subdue the population would
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> When the people fear the government there is tyranny.  When the government
> fears the people there is liberty.
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> The possibility that civilians may have guns wouldn't deter the government
from sending police and soldiers out to subdue them, if that's what they
wanted to do. Bank robbers often have guns, but that doesn't deter the
government from sending police after them, and if they fail to catch them
it usually isn't because the bank robbers outshoot them; and police are
lightly armed compared to the military.

If the government are afraid of going into armed conflict against
dissenters it is because they are afraid of the consequences of
slaughtering them, not because its agents would be shot at.


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Stathis Papaioannou
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