2nd Amendment...

[Jack_DeLeon]

so in light of current events will any non-gun owners go out and exercise your 2nd amendment right to own such a weapon, and learn it?

[BJ]

1. Why? What for?

But, should anyone pop a cap in the ass of the Commander-In-Chump or any of his cabal, you can bet your bottom dollar that AG Asscroft will make the NRA's worst nightmare come true.

[Jack_DeLeon]

2. the why part should be obvious...

but that wasnt really why I was asking.

I was just curious if people's emotions on this issue might have changed anyone's mind.

[BJ]

3. I'm sorry, it's not obvious at all. Why? Arm for revolution?

Is that what you think is so obvious? I'm not flaming you, I just don't think buying firearms is that obvious if one does not currently own them.

Or do you think there will be a general breakdown of civil law and order where the gun will be the law of the land?

I'm just curious, now.

[HereSince1628]

4. NO, they _will_ get tired of bashing the innocent

the nonviolent path is the way of those with endurance, knowing that ultimately the tyrants actually tire and become embarrassed by smacking the other cheeck when it is turned.

[bobbieinok]

5. Ghandi and MLK were killed......don't think nonviolence would have

worked against the Nazis....

[HereSince1628]

6. I think it would have...long suffering notwithstanding.

In the end it is _endurance_ of an idea in society that wins.

The soldiers and victims are sooner or later buried and forgotten.


"Endurance" turns out to be the key to bringing about progressive change. Sometimes that endurance is hidden in violence, sometimes in hunger strikes, sometimes in getting beyond assassinations.