by Hal Eaton » Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:04 pm
I'm really inspired when I read quotes from the intelligentsia in defense of allowing everyone (who so desires) to be armed with a deadly weapon at all times. (After re-reading this, I'd better add that i was being sarcastic.)
Here's Newt Gingrich, speaking to the NRA (which he describes as being "too timid"):
"A Gingrich presidency will submit to the United Nations a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right for every person on the planet because every person on the planet deserves the right to defend themselves from those who would oppress them, those would exploit them, rape them or kill them."
Of course, those who would " oppress. . ., exploit, rape, or kill . . ." would be armed, too -- in every case. Try to imagine the number of shoot-outs that would occur every day under such a regime . . .
As to the problem of religious right organizations being attacked by gun-bearing fanatics, please recall the words of Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
IMO (A designation seldom added to most O's.)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. -- Thomas Paine