[Fwd: Re: guns and nazis (was: White trash)]

Katha Pollitt kpollitt at thenation.com
Tue Nov 16 09:30:41 PST 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> >This is *not* "the militia thing" -- the idea is that "the militia"
> >is every citizen
>
> Really? All 273 million of us? What about noncitizens, them too?
> Organized or just armed freelancers? With pistols? Assault rifles?
> Personal cruise missiles? Please enlighten.
>
> Doug

Yes, indeed. and if EVERY citizen is armed and in the militia, who decides about whom to shoot? How do leaders, policies, strategies and targets get chosen? How do we armed citizens get our orders? And why should we follow them? Or do we just get to make up our own minds and kill whomever we like, on an individual basis... sort of like the system we have now?

Katha



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