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DrBDH's avatar

All well said and sadly true. But let’s not adopt the error of thinking the Second Amendment was meant to arm citizens against their own government, if that’s what you were implying. Anyone who has worked through the odd syntax of 18th century American English can see it prohibits the Federal government from interfering with the states’ ability to raise, arm and regulate a militia, undoubtedly because back then a national standing army wasn’t a thing people wanted. Despite Scalia, it says nothing about government’s ability to pass laws restricting private gun ownership. Or swords or halberds or grenades or any other arms.

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It is a cliche that misery loves company, but nearly every conservative I know is a deeply unhappy person. And they won't be happy until YOU are unhappy. Even the super-wealthy conservatives I know are like this, and it mystifies me. You have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and you spend your spare time trying to make life worse for someone working two min-wage jobs?

You're wrong in thinking they're a death cult. They're actually a mass torture cult. The inevitable deaths are just a happy side-effect of the misery they want to spread far and wide.

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