Comments on: Why Americans Need Assault Rifles http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442 Ockham's Razor - Since October 2001 - by Scott Kirwin Sat, 18 May 2013 21:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s (02.08.13) Watcher’s Council Results | askmarion http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105009 The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s (02.08.13) Watcher’s Council Results | askmarion Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:08:58 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105009 [...] Third place t with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor – Why Americans Need Assault Rifles [...]

]]> By: Watchers Council Winners! | Independent Sentinel http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105006 Watchers Council Winners! | Independent Sentinel Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:11:23 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105006 [...] Third place t with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor-Why Americans Need Assault Rifles [...]

]]> By: Scott Kirwin http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105005 Scott Kirwin Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:26:25 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105005 Cargosquid
That’s true, but individuals without rifles would be nothing more than cannon fodder.
The idea is that organization would begin when the gov’t crossed the line into tyranny. Unfortunately for many on the fringes that has already occurred. I’m very familiar with the “militia movement” as it exists today: racist/xenophobic extremist groups on the Left and Right that honestly I have little sympathy for. But as the gov’t slides into tyranny, those groups would be joined by more mainstream ones and the organization would go into high gear.

As a libertarian I don’t think the gov’t has crossed the line yet, but I’m watching it closely. In the meantime we have to do everything in our power to protect our rights and fight the slide so that we can make avoid making the reset button necessary, or if we can’t, we are capable to carry out the Founder’s intent of the amendment.

]]> By: Cargosquid http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105004 Cargosquid Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:36:09 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105004 Unfortunately, the millions of gun owners are unorganized. The mindset of requiring a militia needs to be reinstated. Only organization and teamwork among the the millions of 2nd Amendment supporters would make a difference. Individuals with rifles are nothing more than targets.

]]> By: ‘Vat to Vead | http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105002 ‘Vat to Vead | Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:30:24 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105002 [...] The Razor – Why Americans Need Assault Rifles [...]

]]> By: The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results | therightplanet.com http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105001 The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results | therightplanet.com Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:00:26 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105001 [...] Third place t with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor-Why Americans Need Assault Rifles [...]

]]> By: Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog » The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results – 02/08/13 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-105000 Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog » The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results – 02/08/13 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:45:08 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-105000 [...] Third place t with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor – Why Americans Need Assault Rifles [...]

]]> By: John Hudock http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-104999 John Hudock Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:01:39 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-104999 A great essay. One point though, while I agree that protecting against government tyranny is the major reason for the inclusion of the 2nd amendment, I still don’t discount the use of gun ownership for self defense. So, while the cost may be some people killed who may not have been, this assumes that they wouldn’t have been killed in other ways, all of which become easier when the populace is disarmed, as the two mass murders of school children in China a couple of years ago by knife wielding maniacs (one of which claimed more children’s lives than Sandy Hook) demonstrates. And it also ignores the lives saved by citizens carrying guns. There are approximately 6000 homicides by firearm each year (out of a total of 11000, so people find plenty of other means to kill each other). But there are 1.5 to 2 million defensive uses of firearms each year. One can easily imagine that at least multiple thousands of these might have resulted in homicides if the person attacked were not armed. So the balance doesn’t require people killed under dictatorship to defend gun ownership (even though governments have claimed well over 150 million lives in the 20th century not including wars).

]]> By: Harold http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442&cpage=1#comment-104998 Harold Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:41:12 +0000 http://www.therazor.org/?p=5442#comment-104998 Battle of Athens 1946- 2nd amendment in action http://www.americanheritage.com/content/battle-athens

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