Reply #109: Completely. Fucking. Meaningless. [View All]

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It's not about who/what back anti-gun control. Everybody can come up with a reason why something's "wrong." There are lots of issues that liberals and conservatives (even extremists) share that don't make one "tainted" with the foul ideology of the other. I agree with the KKKs right to march, much like the ACLU, and I disagree with the LIBERAL Kelo decision that makes government land grab for corporations legal -- and I suspect that most freepers and most DUers agree on those issues.

Gun control is not about pragmatism or conscience. It's about freedom and freedom from tyranny -- a freedom enshrined in our Constitution. Sure, it's a blurry and oft-wrongly interpreted, but it's no. 2, right after the freedom of speech -- and if you don't think that's pretty damn important, then you have a problem with the Constitution. The purpose of the second amendment it to arm the populace, as to not be oppressed by a tyrannical government. It's the final check, so to speak -- and that right shall not be infringed upon, no matter how many pacifist daydreamers and social engineers think the world would be "prettier" without guns, or that if guns were wiped out, people wouldn't find other ways to hurt and kill others.

I don't give a fuck about Ted Nugent and the Rev. Moon -- I care about the Constitution, written by the MOST LIBERAL, ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE in the Western World in the 18th century. The people who want overzealous gun control are not liberals, at all, but authoritarians. AUTHORITARIANS. In the U.S., the authoritarian left has stolen the word "liberal," and changed it to mean something very different from the classical liberalism from which it came.

Like I said, I still vote Dem, because the alternative is far more authoritarian and hideous. That doesn't change the fact that there's nothing liberal about gun control.