The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Wed Apr 21 10:02:50 PDT 1999



> >Also, as I've said before: The right will always have more
> and better arms.
>
> That doesn't seem like very good reasoning, to me. It
> sounds too much like 'burglars can always get into your
> house, so why bother locking the door?' or 'we're all
> going to die anyway, so why not ignore dangers?'
> There's a serious false dichotomy at work there!

(Over quota) I simply don't want the left to concoct excuses to justify its own use of violence. Whatever the initial moral worthiness of one's aims, violence corrupts and absolute violence -- war -- corrupts absolutely (Clinton and Blair: Please copy).

Cqrl Remick



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