[ExI] ccp struggles

[William Flynn Wallace]

Gun confiscation is the right wing's nightmare.  I never have been able to
buy this one.  I see no evidence that it could occur here.  Politicians are
deathly afraid of the NRA.  It just makes no sense to me.  Even East  Coast
liberals don't support confiscation (which would destroy their credibility
with just about everyone), just strong laws concerning ownership.

Trying to take away guns would alarm everyone, who would think "What's
next?"

Even if it started, people would hide guns. I think it would be an
impossibility to take away most of our guns.

bill w

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…But why aren’t countries with a long history of much lower gun ownership
> rates than the US, say the Netherlands or Australia, closer to tyranny than
> the US? On the contrary, the US is more authoritarian than these countries,
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> You gave the reason why the US has, and carefully protects, our rights to
> own guns: we have more restrictions of personal freedoms.  If the
> government gets guns away from the citizens, we don’t drift towards being
> more like the Netherlands, we drift toward being more like Nazi Germany or
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> I don’t trust the US government.  I haven’t seen a trustworthy in there in
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> Of course every US citizen has the option to not be armed.  Do feel free
> to not be armed, by all means.
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