05-09-2023, 11:49 PM
(05-09-2023, 09:25 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:(05-09-2023, 09:18 PM)rothschild Wrote: You can poke an eye out with a spork. There'll be mass eye-pokings. So we'll have to ban sharp implements. All of them. But then we'll be safe.
Har, har.
One weapon at a time. Remember . . . words are dangerous weapons, too.
Like Joe said: The 2nd Amendment isn't absolute.
Time to put-up or shut-up, Uncle Joe.
Problem-->reaction-->solution.
A time-tested methodology that involves a catalyzing event, or series of events.
Nothing in this system we inhabit is absolute. It's a dynamic system, absolutes are static. When you hear someone saying such and such isn't absolute, it means they want more power. The only way government can have more power is for the governed to give up their own, which they'll never get back.
A benevolent government would never seek to disempower the citizenry for it's own protection, not least because that's completely illogical. Disempowerment increases vulnerability and dependency.
So be careful what you wish for.