The Real Reason They Hate the 2nd Amendment!

Can't win an election with logical presentations of the reason for the RKBA and you are going to win over the public with bombs and shooting.

Really brillant.

Got a question for you armchair bomb throwers.

Al Gore wins through a court fluke. He manages to get a bill passed that requires the registration of all handguns in the USA.

A friend of yours says he plans to blow up the local Federal building as it has an ATF office and they are running Al's program. It will be like Oklahoma City. Innocents will be killed.

To you turn him in? Or do you help? Or do you work legislatively to overturn the bill or win the next election?

Most of you who argue the violence have zero, ZERO conceptualization of what would happen and how many people really are supporters of a mass movement defining civil rights as gun rights. YOU are clueless and live in an RKBA
fantasy world.

If the RKBA cannot win in the ballot box, then the kind of violence argued here is immoral. Time to say that y'all.
 
Most of you who argue the violence have zero, ZERO conceptualization of what would happen and how many people really are supporters of a mass movement defining civil rights as gun rights. YOU are clueless and live in an RKBA fantasy world.

This is true. I suspect that a large majority of those who advocate violence are "armchair revolutionaries". I've _seen_ messages which claim that while the writer fully intends to fight to the death when "They" come for his guns...he's gonna knuckle under for now and go along with registration and licensing. I'm not convinced. If you aren't willing to risk arrest _now_, you're kidding yourself if you think you'll risk being killed in a confrontation when several armed men knock on (or knock down) your door to collect your guns.

It's easy to talk the talk, but vastly harder to walk the walk. I don't doubt that in a nation of 260,000,000 people there are many, many folks who are willing and able to make that kind of decision. I also don't doubt that most of them never say a word, they just quietly go about their lives. When and if _they_ decide the time has come for violent resistance, the first we'll know of it when it starts happening.

If the RKBA cannot win in the ballot box, then the kind of violence argued here is immoral. Time to say that y'all.

Now _this_ I absolutely disagree with. Unless you view the state as your God, the source of all morality and therefore always in the right, this is wrong. Unless you're prepared to obey the state blindly, no matter how corrupt and evil its commands, there can (and ultimately will, under any government) come a time when violent, armed resistance is both necessary and RIGHT.

There's no guarantee that you'll have _any_ support, much less the support (passive or otherwise) of a majority of your fellow citizens. But moral judgment is an individual act; you can't make them for anyone else, and nobody else can make them for you. If you're totally alone in your views, you may want to think long and hard, since the truth is seldom so obscure that only one person can see it--but if you're still convinced that you have right on your side, you should trust your own judgment.

There's also no guarantee that you'll win, especially if you're in the minority. But if the issue is important enough, that too is irrelevant. Our histories are full of stories of men and women who fought (and very often died) for a losing cause because it was _right_.

So...yes, the people calling for violent resistance if Gore "steals" the election are spouting nonsense, in my opinion.

But that doesn't change the fact that there _are_ principles worth fighting, dying and KILLING for. There are principles worth fighting and killing cops, soldiers, politicians and judges for. This current political battle isn't one of them, but they do exist. And it doesn't matter morally whether you're one of millions or a minority of one; right is right.
 
Let's look at history here... IRA "soldiers" number significantly under 1,000. But they've caused massive havoc. Maybe you're not going to actively fight, but would you assist a freedom fighter?
 
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