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The US used to be "protected" (term used loosely) by a civilian militia. Now it is "protected" by a nationally organized and trained voluntary force. So it seems ..........

You know what? **** you, you douchetroll, you don't deserve it. Go get cancer.

Don't cite me out of context please. I don't think Americans are stupid, they are no more or less susceptible to cultural influences than the rest of us.

Sometimes American fundamentalists scare me more than Islamic fundamentalists.

I'm not judging. I just can't think the same way you guys do due to my environment being so different.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...-gun-ownership

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcnazimyth.html

Interesting reading fwiw. Looks like the common Aryan citizen was allowed to have firearms, and the Jewish/Gypsy populace would have been very ill-equipped to succeed in a armed rebellion.

Hearty lol @ "nothing the common person could do about it". The common people were the very ones responsible for democratically electing both the Weimar Republic leaders (who in 1928 passed the first gun control laws) and the Nazis. Why does the average citizen always get a pass? The average person is ignorant, perpetually afraid and generally worthy of condemnation.

Islamic fundies are worse in terms of direct danger to others, but I don't think they're much different when it comes to slavish adherence to dogma and hatred of those who hold opposing views.

Haha I just realized I posted the same link as poopadoop. Google ftw. Not reading every post before responding ftl.

(it is an interesting article)

Only because some fundamentalist groups still have it too good to blow up themselves for the greater good. Add some anger and desperation and any fundamental is a bad thing imo.
The funny thing is they even admit it themselves that they need each other to grow more powerful. Polarization is a dangerous thing and it is happening in a lot of countries these days.

yep, I pretty much agree with all of that

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“In Federalist Paper 46, James Madison addressed the concern that a standing federal army might conduct a coup to take over the nation. He argued that this was implausible because, based on the country's population at the time, a federal standing army couldn't field more than 25,000-30,000 men. He then wrote: ”

Most of your posts are troll posts.

Never heard that argument before but there is more to the 2nd amendment than I thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...s_Constitution

Time for a cat photo?

You really are a moron sometimes.

Come over here and say that to my face, tough guy.

You took a perfectly innocuous QUESTION (as I ****ing directly stated in the post) and took it as a sweet opportunity to troll me AND to further your dumbass birther gunfag agenda. It should have been so unnecessary to write this, since I stated I was actually mildly pro-gun. It clearly never occurred to you that it's possible for somebody to be neither completely on your side NOR the other side. Because that's not how politics work on the short bus.

You call ME paranoid. Yet you are the one thinking your Fisher Price My First Firearm bull**** is going to stop the apparently inevitable Obama Superdroid Military Juggernaut. Please, son. By Day 2 you're gonna be fully reeducated and slurping up Big Brother's cumropes like a common LA crackwhore.

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

But no worries, have fun jizzing off in your Turner Diaries copy once again tonight. Be careful though, the pages where the perma-maligned white Christian male FINALLY puts one through the skull of a NWO stormtrooper are getting a little sticky.

You truck-nutz having, Budweiser swilling ***. Go wrap yourself in the flag so tight you auto-erotic asphyxiate yourself like David Carradine.

I already regret making that post.

It contained too many polysyllabic words. It's going to go right over his head.

POTY candidate with less than two weeks to go in the 2012 season.

got my vote

major lols at these lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF7OnW4XDck

So I'm laughing at elo's post and my gf starts reading the thread over my shoulder. She's on an art forum where everyone praises everyone's work and works as a support group. She says why is everyone so angry on this forum. So I tell her that poker is not about the cards but about manipulating peoples emotions and we are all practicing. She seemed good with that.

I'd much rather be on a forum where people challenge my views and opinions rather than where it's all just a big circle jerk and participation medal crap.

Yeah +1000. I've spent plenty of time on sites like that (mostly music, but also graphic design) and they are just devoid of real critique and analysis. I can barely even read other internet forums having been on 2p2 for so long.