The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> 75 religious zealots holed up in a cabin?  No way.  60M armed citizens
> spread across the country?  That's something completely different.  See,
> you can't just kill them all.  It's a deterrent.  And it's real.

OK, you've had about 200 years to test this absurd hypothesis. Care to
give me one instance in which one could claim that the US government was
deterred from doing something nasty to somebody for fear of its "armed
citizenry"? 


> 
> For now.
> 
> /jordan

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