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Permalink Reply by Marc on December 21, 2012 at 2:53pm

I was role-playing a bit. We have a population of gun advocates that have armed themselves against the possibility of a tyrannical government imposing their will on them.

We have a population of gun advocates that think the purpose of FEMA is to establish concentration camps to inter problematic patriots, under the guise of a positive public program.

It seems logically incongruent to me that rather than even think about starting at square one in the discussion of control the preferred position is to place more armed police in a federal program, not local, not state regulated and not school district employed or organized, to promote safety, which could just as easily within that mindset to be considered to be under the guise of a positive public program.

I'm pretty sure the guns are just a deadly and the federal policemen just as easily mobilized with or without the jackboots.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 21, 2012 at 3:15pm

Federally FUNDED program. (Never happen anyway in the current budget climate.)

Permalink Reply by Lewal on December 22, 2012 at 2:12pm

We're pretty resilient to this sort of thing.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 21, 2012 at 12:37pm

I heard two statistics today. Gun ownership has been rising steeply in the last few years. Then, separately, crime has been going down the last five years.

Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on December 21, 2012 at 12:56pm

The iPhone was released five years ago. That's probably why.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 21, 2012 at 12:58pm

LOL

I think one of the Harry Potter movies was released then as well.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 21, 2012 at 1:04pm

Probably mostly with weapons bought in the rush to buy guns after the shooting.

Permalink Reply by Strega on December 21, 2012 at 1:09pm

Bloody hell, Blaine, that's an alarming set of information!  Good trawl!

Permalink Reply by Hope on December 21, 2012 at 2:49pm

Would the Connecticut elementary school toll have been smaller if a couple staffers had been armed?

I don't think so! It's complicated!

Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 21, 2012 at 3:12pm

I think you'll have to do better than that if you actually have a point to make.

Permalink Reply by Reggie on December 21, 2012 at 10:28pm

What if it is, like, really complicated?

Permalink Reply by Hope on December 22, 2012 at 10:40am

There is a gun culture there in the US.. Sometimes it is a requirement for them to own guns for protection, I guess!

That's what I meant by "complicated".

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