[ExI] ring of truth

[spike at rainier66.com]

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The authoritarian state isn’t out there rioting, looting and burning.  The militia is there to maintain law and order in the event that the police force and army are overwhelmed.

 

 

 

 

>…I thought you said previously that the militia was there to protect the people from government going bad…

 

If that happens, ja.  But it hasn’t.

 

>… (I admit, I had previously assumed the guns were for hunting and to scare off burglars.)

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Stathis Papaioannou

 

 

No, but that is what we are told.  But that isn’t what they are for, even though they can be used for both.  The US Constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to hunt.  I wouldn’t necessarily scare off a burglar: I would just shoot a burglar, then scare her if she survives that.

 

Reasoning: anyone who would break in to an occupied home where the citizens have the right to bear arms has a death wish or wish to cause death.  I choose to grant them their death wish.

 

spike

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