guns

[hudebnik]

So as shalmestere points out, the organization that has been warning us for decades about the Soviet-style police state that will ensue if ordinary citizens can't have high-capacity semiautomatic assault rifles in their homes now proposes that the Federal government hire hundreds of thousands of armed security guards, at taxpayer expense, and post one or more at every grade school in the country. Because that doesn't even remotely feel like a Soviet-style police state.

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[ellid.livejournal.com]

What really angers me is just how many people seem to think that *all* of us should own guns because "an armed society is a polite society." First, I haven't seen one single scrap of actual evidence that that's even *true,* and second, what about my right NOT to own a lethal weapon? Or go for a walk or to a movie or the grocery store without having to worry about one of these armed but polite people getting mad at his wife and deciding to blow away a few people as a stress reliever?