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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
As part of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence, the Million Mom March Chapters believe that all Americans
have the right to be safe from gun violence in their homes,
neighborhoods, schools, and places of work and worship.
And the single best way to accomplish that laudable goal is to own a gun and know how to use it.
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I go much further than you do, Jeff.
The single most de-civilizing thing a society can do is to disarm the general population. A civilized society has everyone armed as he or she sees fit. An uncivilized society has only a special class that is armed, usually if they weren't the government in the first place, this special class soon is the government.
And last, it's weapons control that is the anachronism in modern society; and widespread ownership of sophisticated weapons that is the hall mark of modernity.