[ExI] ccp struggles

[Adrian Tymes]

There are already far too many examples in practice.  Most of them only
involved a few individuals and thus have resulted in few casualties,
fortunately.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:24 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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 rescinded at the government’s whim, but those will all have a common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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