Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Oderus
Originally posted by: Vic
Anti-gun nuts like Oderus are hilarious. They openly admit that they hate and distrust the common people and that prohibition legislation is the cause to all ails. Their banner is an ostrich with its head in the sand.
My question for him: if the people cannot be trusted with guns, then how can we trust the government with guns, as the government is the people?
Vic you are sadly misinformed. I never admitted to hating or distrusting the common people nor that prohibition is the cause of any ailment. Which thread are you reading anyway?
We can trust the government as long as they are trustworthy. When they become untrustworthy we vote them out of power. Your overly simplification of goverment = people is absurd. Politicians do not live like the common people so it's hardly accurate to imply such a statement.
And you misunderstand completely. What I was pointing out is that your argument is fundementally flawed. If the people vote in and vote out the government as they see fit, choosing from amongst themselves who will serve and who will not, then the people ARE the government.
And are not the police (and all other government employees) also "the people"? Or did they lose their right to be among "the people" when they put on the badge? And yet the police will still be armed under your system while the rest of the people will not, thus you establish castes of privilege, those who have the right to use deadly force to protect themselves and those who do not.
And as to the living conditions of the politicians, that is so irrelevant as to be absurd to bring it up. Are you suggesting that no one but politicians live that way? Of course not. The people are represented by the widest range.
Basically, you're just another Ivory Tower elitist. Daddy Gubment knows best, the people must be controlled for their own good, etc. Your argument is logically flawed to its core, and fundamentally unworkable, but I know that that will not stop your idealism.