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Posted on 10/31/2016 7:08:21 AM PDT by rktman
Guns are an important part of American history, both from a legal and illegal standpoint. From the single action revolvers of the old West to mobsters with Thompson submachine guns, American culture and society have enshrined firearms into our national iconography. They are inherently complicated things, created with the latent potential to protect or to destroy. Beyond our national discussion of gun legislation, the possession of deadly weapons by regular citizens remains a more contested issue.
The far right and the far left are exaggerating and arbitrarily simplifying what is an extremely nuanced and philosophical question. I hope to reframe our current political discourse and put it into the historical, even global context of human violence. Instead of looking at statistics, which Mark Twain termed “damn lies,” we would do well to hypothesize for a moment. What place do firearms have in American society?
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As long as there is a government that we cannot trust, yes!
How else can I protect my family. The courts just recycle the criminals, so I have no other choice!
They may have a HUGE place in 9 days.
I don't think it's nuanced at all. I have a right to defend myself. That's all that needs to be said.
Now, more than ever.
Right on my hip and slung over my shoulder until needed.
That’s their place.
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As long as there are criminals who would steal my property and take my life for no reason whatsoever, there’ll always be a need for law abiding citizens to possess firearms.
Sure they do. On my hip or in my gun rack.
Same places they rested for my dad and my grand father. Why change now?
Racial divide? Troost St. UMKC can go to hell.
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“What place do firearms have in American society?”
To protect me an mine from a two-tier, lawless, criminal government that in 8 days may be given a blessing by a decadent, degenerate voting public.
“The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed..”
End of “discussion.”
And this is what passes for an academic paper?
No wonder that non-STEM departments are regarded with the same respect as were Chevy Vegas.
Yet citizens keep and bear arms more now.
Yes. And they always will.
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
A hint for all you Freepers...it was Hubert H Humphrey
NOW, MORE THAN EVER !
Do government funded universities still have a place in American society?
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