LBO = flame city? (was RE: Survivor!)

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Mon Oct 30 11:14:54 PST 2000


wojtek:
> >Fear of right wingers (especially gun-toting ones) is far from being
> >irrational. Where i'm coming from they have a pretty bad track records -
> >some 6+ million souls.

Kind of a low count there. And then there's the rather remarkable record of the "left" wingers further east. But anyway....

kelley:
> yeah and like the german immigrants i lived with for almost a year when i
> was a youngin' , they utterly understood the need for the right to bear
> arms because when the nazi's took *their* gunz....
>
> they were friggin there.
>
> they remember that working class people didn't support the nazis. that
> they'd been struggling for various kinds of left socialisms. but all of
> that got shot out the window when they had no way of fighting back the
> storm troopers that busted into their workers' meetings, etc.
>
> good kind people who like to hunt and live an ordinary life here in the US
> now. real rightwingers ya know!

Isn't it a characteristic of feudal societies to deny certain classes of persons weapons? I often think of this when I see the local cops swaggering around with their Glock 9s amidst the homeboys and the Welfare moms. Are the weapons really just a fetish?



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