Letters to the Editor
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who needs a gun?
Firstly, I don't believe giuliani. His past performance as NYC mayer carries more weight with me than what he says to pro 2d amendment groups.
"Who needs a gun?" That's like asking who needs to speak freely. Especially when the government is willing to grant anyone a limited right to speak freely in designated and fenced off "first amendment zones".
So who, other than cops and the military, needs guns. Every citizen does. Take your pick, would you rather be an armed citizen or an unarmed subject.
Amazingly, people (other than those in power) are still eager to disarmed the citizenry. After all these years of being herded into free speech zones to be tasered, fire hosed, zip tied, pepper sprayed, shot (non lethally so far), and arrested. We have people being disappeared. Congress is actually debating the right to habeas corpus. Congress has voted to retroactively legalize the administration's criminal spying. They are about to retroactively immunize the private corporations that committed crimes at the behest of the administration.
We look over to Iraq where another private company, Blackwater, kills Iraqi citizens and can't be punished or even stopped. How long until that stuff comes to the US under the guise of private security?
By now, you'd expect people to realize that both the dems and the GOP support the erosion of civil rights. The more autonomous representatives and senators make stern clucking noises before voting yea.
With this backdrop of government abuse, some people still want an unarmed citizenry.
And I haven't even mentioned personal protection. Is everyone who is less then 6ft and 220lbs supposed to hire a krav maga expert before going to the ATM? Are the elderly supposed to cower behind bars lest a young thug steal their meds?