Reply #19: Thank you for proving my point: [View All]

[newswolf56]

If you were a genuine humanitarian -- that is, if you truly cared about the people you say you care about -- you would be expressing outrage over the fact the United States is the most economically savage (and savagely racist) nation in the industrial world. Quoth Paul Krugman:

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/091905.html

Reasoning from the hideous and infinitely damning truth of Krugman's analysis, racism (manipulated by the corporate oligarchy toward its own greedy ends) is also why our public transport, public education, healthcare and heating-fuel distribution systems are the most genocidally savage in the industrial world.

Yet all you seem to focus on is guns -- ironically, the one and only element in the political equation that (just as the founders intended) may yet prove vital to reinforce the collapsing levees of the Constitution and stop the rising flood of tyranny.

Or as Justice Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in 2003, the right to bear arms:

...is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

"Those exceptionally rare circumstances" are also the dread possibilities that underly the slogan, Real Leftists Own Guns.

As to the policies of other nations -- in 1775, no other nation was copying our policy either.

If I were a plutocrat -- a member of the ruling corporate oligarchy -- I would be profoundly grateful to you for the all services you are rendering. Perhaps someday you will receive the commendation you so richly deserve.