Gun control is hitting what you aim
at.
Green Mtn
location: Observing the Progressive madness with considerably less amusement.
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"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress ... to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.... "
--Samuel Adams"The vexing question of Gun Control has again become subject of
debate. I know that comparisons are odious, but this is a time
as good as any to compare the Swiss Confederation with the City
of Oakland in California. Switzerland has all the potential of a
nasty little Bosnia. It is inhabited by two mutually antagonistic
races, the Latin and the Teutonic. Further, it is linguistically
divided into three mutually antagonistic nationalities, the German,
and French and the Italians, and the German and French-speaking
parts are religiously divided into two mutually and antagonistic
Christian denominations, the Roman Catholic and the Calvinists,
and to top it all off, every male between the ages of 20 through
50 after having finished his mandatory military services must
keep an assault rifle at home and be prepared to arm himself and
report to his assigned position at a moments notice...a minuteman
in fact. Bearing this in mind it is reasonably to assume that
Switzerland, a nation of about 7 million is awash in blood, but
in the year 2003, there were less than 40 murders committed there
whilst in the City of Oakland, California with a population of
less than 400,000 the butcher's bill was 114. Why the difference?
Could it be that Switzerland is a bourgeois democracy (dreadful
words, so debased by Marxian venom that I scarcely dare use it)
with its concomitant values of sobriety, thrift, obedience
to the rules they themselves have voted into law, and above
all the fact that they are the government, whilst in Oakland,
governed by Utopian Marxists (no, I will not call them Liberals)
with former governor Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown at its helm and with
all its gun controls the results of which are that there are
'hoods where guns rule at night. Of course, there might very
well be other more pertinent explanations, if so; I'd like to
hear about them." --San Francisco, CaliforniaGrn Mtn
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
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"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress ... to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.... "
--Samuel Adams"The vexing question of Gun Control has again become subject of
debate. I know that comparisons are odious, but this is a time
as good as any to compare the Swiss Confederation with the City
of Oakland in California. Switzerland has all the potential of a
nasty little Bosnia. It is inhabited by two mutually antagonistic
races, the Latin and the Teutonic. Further, it is linguistically
divided into three mutually antagonistic nationalities, the German,
and French and the Italians, and the German and French-speaking
parts are religiously divided into two mutually and antagonistic
Christian denominations, the Roman Catholic and the Calvinists,
and to top it all off, every male between the ages of 20 through
50 after having finished his mandatory military services must
keep an assault rifle at home and be prepared to arm himself and
report to his assigned position at a moments notice...a minuteman
in fact. Bearing this in mind it is reasonably to assume that
Switzerland, a nation of about 7 million is awash in blood, but
in the year 2003, there were less than 40 murders committed there
whilst in the City of Oakland, California with a population of
less than 400,000 the butcher's bill was 114. Why the difference?
Could it be that Switzerland is a bourgeois democracy (dreadful
words, so debased by Marxian venom that I scarcely dare use it)
with its concomitant values of sobriety, thrift, obedience
to the rules they themselves have voted into law, and above
all the fact that they are the government, whilst in Oakland,
governed by Utopian Marxists (no, I will not call them Liberals)
with former governor Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown at its helm and with
all its gun controls the results of which are that there are
'hoods where guns rule at night. Of course, there might very
well be other more pertinent explanations, if so; I'd like to
hear about them." --San Francisco, CaliforniaGrn Mtn
–--
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
