[ExI] ccp struggles

[William Flynn Wallace]

Let's hope we never find out, adrian  bill w

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:16 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Stathis, without the right to bear arms, the people have no rights at
>> all, but rather only a list of grudging permissions which may be taken away
>> at the government’s whim.
>>
>>
>>
>> There are Americans who will argue Americans’ civil rights can be
>> rescinded at the government’s whim, but those will all have a common
>> characteristic: they have not exercised their right to be armed.
>>
>
> Nice theory, but in practice, the police are so thoroughly armed that when
> they perceive a need to break out their most lethal weapons, citizens
> bearing arms tend to be among the first to lose their rights permanently.
> (Last I checked, the dead have no rights.)
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