<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">That's why status-maximizing psychopaths in power (who always want more power) always try to disarm the populace. Nazis did it to Jews, "Democrats" want to do it to us. rafal</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">I</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> am an independent who votes Democratic. I cannot speak for anyone else, but here is what I think about guns: automatic weapons should be totally illegal - for military only - I am on the border about the semiautomatic weapons - if you can't kill something with one shot, stay home and practice until you can; guns should be registered and background checks thorough, esp. for a criminal record - no guns for felons with a violent record or for those who have been institutionalized for psychotic problems (or anyone with psychotic problems). (I might think of some more reasons, but none that I believe conservatives would object to.) Why they object to any of the above is a mystery to me.)</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">That's about all. If everyone who could meet the above criteria had ten guns it would not bother me a bit. I do think confiscation is never going to happen and those who think so might be a bit paranoid. Even if confiscation were the law, I'll bet many who would be tasked with doing it would not do it. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I have used shotguns and rifles and currently only have a pistol. Did not like killing animals though I did so quite competently. And ate what I killed - deer, ducks, doves, quail, squirrels. (My dad liked squirrel brains.)</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w </font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:06 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:32 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would NEVER wish for a civil war, but I think you're underestimating the power of asymmetric warfare in that situation. Gun owners are hardly a bunch of silly rednecks with little hunting rifles. Many of them are as well armed as a typical infantry soldier in terms of weaponry. If the will was there to defend/revolt, it would not be an easy fight without resorting to bombing large swathes of the US.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### That's why status-maximizing psychopaths in power (who always want more power) always try to disarm the populace. Nazis did it to Jews, "Democrats" want to do it to us.</div><div><br></div><div>There, Godwin's law FTW. </div></div></div>
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