[ExI] right to try bill

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Grabbing our guns would enable unlimited subsequent power grabbing, for
constitutional rights could be suspended without consequence.  That would
be the ultimate power, the unholy grail for a power grabber.  spike

I regard this as extremely unlikely.  Yes, I have read Orwell, both books
(actually like Animal Farm better), and have a tome of his essays.  I am
not naive at all, but regard arms confiscation as improbable as society
stands now.  Has it ever been tried anywhere?  With success?  Here it would
start another civil war.
bill w

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:30 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> On 26 September 2016 at 09:34, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>  >>…  Grabbing our guns would enable unlimited subsequent power grabbing,
> for constitutional rights could be suspended without consequence.  That
> would be the ultimate power, the unholy grail for a power grabber.
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> >…Surely you don't believe that the reason the Government is not more
> tyrannical is that they worry the police and soldiers they would send out
> to subdue the population would get shot at? -- Stathis Papaioannou
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> Kinda the opposite.  The government is not more tyrannical because they
> worry the police and soldiers they send out to subdue the population would
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> When the people fear the government there is tyranny.  When the government
> fears the people there is liberty.
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> spike
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