Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: "Nobody wants to take your guns..." [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)I'm also afraid of being stranded at sea. That's why I carry lots of flares and a flare gun. That's why I wear a seatbelt in the car.
Fear is a very real thing. I've had fires and car accidents. I know these devices work. I've seen others use flares and know they work. They are all designed to protect and save lives, not to take lives. Do you get the difference?
Standing armies do not patrol the streets, armed to the teeth, during peace time. Except, unfortunately, in Mexico, where there is a drug war going on, thanks to Uncle Sam.
I don't have a solution. Do you? Do you think carrying more guns is a solution? Really?
Who do I think you are afraid of? Other people, especially brown and black people http://voxday.blogspot.it/2012/12/why-us-gun-deaths-are-high.html
I do not think the US is in a civil war. Yet!
I think the US is on the brink of a civil war. Most people are only a couple of paychecks away from homelessness. The economy is extremely fragile. There is a gun for every man, woman and child in America. More and more people buy guns daily. Fear is the hottest commodity. Whether it happens this year, or in 5 years, or 10 years, I don't know. But the shit will eventually hit the fan.
You live in a country where people have forgotten what real food tastes like and forgotten even more about how to survive without supermarkets that are supplied by factory farms.
The "preppers" are building bunkers and arming up, thinking they can protect themselves from the zombie hordes.
Meanwhile, the band plays on.
And you think the problem is meth head tweakers and assorted criminals. Right!