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Originally Posted by Hans Landa
Being a right-winger myself, I agree with this, despite being a Canadian who's never owned or fired a gun, I can certainly appreciate how important they are as a symbol to American freedom in the eyes of true patriots (lefties, in my opinion, are anti-patriots).
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Shocking and offensive statement.
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Originally Posted by Hans Landa
To let the government decide, for other people, what is necessary or unnecessary, with respect to guns, because they 'fail to see why civilians would need a particular weapon' would just leave an argument open for the government 'failing to see why civilians needs more than 90hp in their cars' among a million other examples of support of more and more government control over our lives in the name of treating grown adults like children.
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Would it really though?
Here's my feeling: Freedom without regulation is no freedom at all. Think of a world without laws. Think of a world without red lights or stop signs. Think of a world where every person on earth carried a gun. Think of a world where there were no consequences to lying, or stealing, or cheating. Because that is a "free" world. True freedom is the dominion of psychopaths; it is the land where might is right.
When people say they want freedom, this is not what they are asking for. They want the good parts of freedom without the bad, yet they denounce governments when politicians attempt to accomplish just that.
Freedom in the positive sense is something to be cherished. But what many need to realize is that regulation and positive freedom are symbiotic. Yes, regulation without freedom is tyranny, but so is freedom without regulation.