At some point early in 2016 (I think it was around the time that PDJT started to look like he had a shot to actually become the Republican nominee), Quora took a sharp and obvious turn to the left, if only because there suddenly began to show up numerous "questions" that were just thinly-disguised anti-Trump political screeds. Since then, about one-third of the "questions" (all Quora threads must have a title that is expressed in the form of a question) are political, the vast majority obviously from the left-wing perspective. It's a little like a push-poll.
There are some conservatives at Quora, I don't know how many. Certainly a minority. Some are very good (although no better than many of the posters here at FR). I refrain from engaging in political discussions at Quora; I use it to indulge in discussions about science and engineering, which are my main passion in life.
Anyway, this essay by an Iranian at Quora was exceptionally good, and I hope you like it.
By the way, many of the people involved in Quora are from other countries; Indian people in particular are big users.
There are many questions that are obviously typed in directly from homework assignments. They are usually answered very capably.
No, they couldn’t do it, if they can’t get rid of 30 million illegal aliens, how do they think they can get rid of 300+million guns?
See NYC and Chicago for examples
That was a very good read. Thank you for posting.
There are ways for the govt to get the guns. If there were a govt-created famine, for instance, and the govt gave food in exchange for turned-in weapons.
It’s the dying wish for gun grabbers.
If you don’t believe the government wants to do away with private ownership of firearms, you have not been paying attention.
It has designs on us that it cannot attempt while we can still shoot back.
The most basic of these is seizure of 401ks and IRAs for ‘protection’ and redistribution.
“the government”? No
Multiple politicians and many “political players” - absolutely.
So true... without the 2nd Amendment, we wouldn't have been able to keep the 1st (it's been hard enough to keep the 1st Amendment, even though we DO have the right to keep and bear arms).
I live in California. I’m convinced that the state government at least WANTS to take our guns away.
Yeh, there be bear in dem dar woods!
Sums it Up!
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See George B. Shaw’s quote!
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Agree with your remarks about Quora.
Thanks for posting the article. Someone should send it to Rick Scott, Dannell Malloy, Chris Murphy and Jim Himes as a start.
FL Gop ran a trial ballon in FL this week .
They grabbed them .
Leftists ... absolutely. They can’t install their utopian dictator and load those opposed to them into cattle cars and “FEMA” camps while there are armed American citizens
running around
I take it as an award to my intellect that I was expelled.
“we will probably have a large number of them on our side”
I wouldn’t count on that one. The first loyalty is not to protect the constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic, but to themselves.
While it is a good thing to have “your brother’s back”, it’s not a good thing to have that supersede the oath, nevertheless, that’s how it works out to be.
No matter how sympathetic to a cause, once someone on the other side takes out a friend, watch how fast their opinion changes to full-on support of the one in power.
It’s nice to imagine that many will just lay down arms and say “I’m not doing this”, but I really don’t think that’ll happen.
How many walked away from Ruby Ridge or Waco? - zero.
Partial lists of ‘the dead’ stupid enough to give up their guns...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
65 million in the People’s Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Ethiopia
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Eastern Bloc
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America
10,000 deaths “resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power.”[4]:4
Courtois writes that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism.
Since we no longer live in a nation of (thank you Mr, Sessions) LAW we are not merely a generation away but one election away from losing our guns.
Solzhenitsyn made a similar point, though, he put more emphasis on the lack of will to resist and the lack of awareness of what was coming. Having guns will not help people if they are not ready to use them when they come to take them. Whether enough people will resist is still up in the air. Australians just showed that they won’t.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
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