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A bit absurd arguments
Submitted by mark (not verified) on Sat, 2008-02-02 20:44.

First off, Pope John Paul is widely credited with facilitating the end of Soviet Communism. And he had no divisions, no army.

Second, when you make the argument that a million people with a million guns might indeed be able to take on the army is actually a changing of the original argument. The original argument was what does one person with a gun do against an army. What you've done is essentially created a new army of the million pistol wielders. And this argument assumes that the other 999,999 pistol owners come to your aid and not the governments aid. And this doesn't even take into consideration Apache helicopters and tactical nuclear weapons.

If right now, today, GW Bush declared himself President for life, and armed pistol wielding groups decided to take him on, you can be sure that a lot of pistol owners would come to the DEFENSE of Bush. I doubt there is a scenario that does not include substantial support for any such President in the general population.

No, the only hope against tyranny in 21st century America is the notion that the American army would not come to such a Presidents aid. Of course, maybe that's why Blackwater has grown so much in the last 7 years.

But I must say, your article is well written and does pull at one's patriotic heartstrings. But then again, patriotism can easily be misused.

Personally, I believe in gun ownership and sane gun control laws that protect the rights of the innocent to own them. But needing them to prevent tyranny in the USA? Forget about that. Those days are long gone and all the tugging at patriotic heartstrings will not change that. "Regular" American's cannot even get close to it's leaders anymore what with secret service and personal bodyguards. The threat of small arms is just a joke to them now.

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