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

Rob Schaap rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Mon Oct 30 11:33:13 PST 2000


G'day Kel,


>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!

I don't doubt there are lots of really sweet gun-owners, Kel - but do you really think that Paul-Revere-cum-NRA stuff about citizens defending themselves carries the argument? Either with respect to a 1936 Germany or a 2001 America? I don't think you think that ...

Just wondering, Rob.



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