nessie wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
> >
> >Whose conservative estimate? The NRA's?
>
> Mine.
>
> It is, admittedly, a difficult thing to estimate. Gun ownership is a lot
> like sex and drugs. Some people lie about it. Even more simply omit the
> truth, or part of the truth. So it's impossible to get an absolutely
> correct figure.
>
> An even more conservative estimate than mine can be found at:
>
> http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/165476.txt
>
> This study says 44 million. It was done by phone. The true figure is
> undoubtedly higher. How much higher is impossible to ascertain.
>
> But for the sake of argument, let's pretend that 44 million is the correct
> figure.
OK.
> Now you tell me: How many people are in law enforcement and the military
> combined? How many of them are combat troops and active duty beat cops
> (as opposed to cooks, drivers and desk jockeys)? How many of those can be
> counted on to be loyal to their commanders and not to the Constitution
> they swore to protect?
You can ask these questions about any army and police force in the world.
The military is always smaller than the population. So what? The military
are trained to deal with this. The 44 mil gun owners are not disciplined,
not organized, not all men of fighting age or ability, and are surely not
all willing to die for that stupid second amendment. There will not be an
uprising to defend gun owners. Fuck em. Let them shoot it out with the
military. I think most Americans will take this attitude. I know I will.
Look to Waco as an example of what most Americans will do.
> This last question is the most important. Personally, I think the
> Constitution is a meaningless scrap of paper that the plutocrats use to
> deceive us into thinking we are ruled by laws and not by plutocrats.
I could not agree with you more. And the proof is that only Plutocrats
wrote it.
> Most
> people in the military and in law enforcement feel differently. How many
> of them feel how differently remains to be seen.
They do what they are told. Always have, always will. When told to shoot
down the veterans of a previous war, they did it. When told to shoot down
unarmed civilian workers striking Ford. They did it. They don't think.
They do what they are told. That is their function.
J2
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