Gopher a 45
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Okay CS,
Please accept my apologies for characterizing you as a troll. Those show up here occasionally, post inflammatory material a few times, then disappear.
I stick by the clumsy part, though. In fact, I did understand your post, I just didn't think ya did it very well. JMHO.
Your point about Paladin Press is well taken. Last year, for example, PP stopped publishing many titles that dealt with things that go boom. Why? They're legal (for now) yet they stopped publishing them. Even though such titles are technically legal, I have no doubt that if someone was raided, much as the pizza shop owner in (Maryland?) was, any titles by say, Ragnar Benson, laying around would be used against that person at a trial to show what a danger he was, whether or not said guy had used that information illegally. So I guess that there's not much difference these days between illegal and what's technically legal, but will still get you in a world of doo-doo if you're caught with it.
Back to UC. I was more disturbed by the Billy Dell incident than the last part of the book b/c the deputy was crippled for life over something as minor property damage, which could have been addressed within the system, while violations of fundamental rights sometimes cannot.
I suppose the whole last part of the book is trying to raise the question of "at what point does working within the system fail?" Theoretically, the BOR is not subject to majority vote, so fans of the 2nd Amendment or any other Amendment shouldn't HAVE to do anything (politically or otherwise), but I think history takes a dim view of people who sit on their butts when it comes to fundamental rights. Just like I have the right, in theory, to walk down into a dark alley singing and waving handfuls of $100 bills in the air without being bothered, but common sense tells me that isn't real smart.
Please accept my apologies for characterizing you as a troll. Those show up here occasionally, post inflammatory material a few times, then disappear.
I stick by the clumsy part, though. In fact, I did understand your post, I just didn't think ya did it very well. JMHO.
Your point about Paladin Press is well taken. Last year, for example, PP stopped publishing many titles that dealt with things that go boom. Why? They're legal (for now) yet they stopped publishing them. Even though such titles are technically legal, I have no doubt that if someone was raided, much as the pizza shop owner in (Maryland?) was, any titles by say, Ragnar Benson, laying around would be used against that person at a trial to show what a danger he was, whether or not said guy had used that information illegally. So I guess that there's not much difference these days between illegal and what's technically legal, but will still get you in a world of doo-doo if you're caught with it.
Back to UC. I was more disturbed by the Billy Dell incident than the last part of the book b/c the deputy was crippled for life over something as minor property damage, which could have been addressed within the system, while violations of fundamental rights sometimes cannot.
I suppose the whole last part of the book is trying to raise the question of "at what point does working within the system fail?" Theoretically, the BOR is not subject to majority vote, so fans of the 2nd Amendment or any other Amendment shouldn't HAVE to do anything (politically or otherwise), but I think history takes a dim view of people who sit on their butts when it comes to fundamental rights. Just like I have the right, in theory, to walk down into a dark alley singing and waving handfuls of $100 bills in the air without being bothered, but common sense tells me that isn't real smart.
