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I was at the library tonight and I picked up one the so-called 'news' rags (one of the more popular ones) and read the article on the Heller case (hint...the mag has a big pic of a Beretta on the cover) and I was a bit suprised that the gun control issue was reported with very little bias, but that is not my point.
If said article has the facts straight then we are in the minority with the majority being non gun owners (4 out of 10 being firearms owners...at least those who will admit it).
It has been said that democracy is mob rule at the ballot box....in this case I do believe that if there were to be a national vote for or against civilian ownership of guns we would would be on the losing side of the vote.
I realize that said article pointed to polls that indicated that the majority of Americans are against banning guns, but a poll is a poll and not a binding vote.
(In the back of my mind comes the question, who will have the balls to disarm the minority...we saw England fall and we would like to think we are stronger than that)
The short of the long is the question that asks wether or not the 60 percent have the right, ability and power to remove a god given right from the remaining 40 percent?
Let us change it to an 80/20 or 90/10 or even 98/2 percent ratio. Does the mob still have the right to make us bow to their will. Surely decent folk in the mob would be intelligent enough to say that the gun owners are dying off and that they should be left to go extinct on their own because all good men know that evil wins when then they do nothing to protect the innocent.
Sorry for the winding logic train. This is how I thnk, and type.
If said article has the facts straight then we are in the minority with the majority being non gun owners (4 out of 10 being firearms owners...at least those who will admit it).
It has been said that democracy is mob rule at the ballot box....in this case I do believe that if there were to be a national vote for or against civilian ownership of guns we would would be on the losing side of the vote.
I realize that said article pointed to polls that indicated that the majority of Americans are against banning guns, but a poll is a poll and not a binding vote.
(In the back of my mind comes the question, who will have the balls to disarm the minority...we saw England fall and we would like to think we are stronger than that)
The short of the long is the question that asks wether or not the 60 percent have the right, ability and power to remove a god given right from the remaining 40 percent?
Let us change it to an 80/20 or 90/10 or even 98/2 percent ratio. Does the mob still have the right to make us bow to their will. Surely decent folk in the mob would be intelligent enough to say that the gun owners are dying off and that they should be left to go extinct on their own because all good men know that evil wins when then they do nothing to protect the innocent.
Sorry for the winding logic train. This is how I thnk, and type.