[lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment

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At 12:58 AM -0500 7/18/04, Carrol Cox wrote:
>joanna bujes wrote:
>  >
>  > That's the ones about guns....right? That's easy. If the cops have guns,
>  > I want one too.
>
>Actually, one needs to consider this carefully if one is on the cops'
>shitlist. (They had my photograph on a dart board at the Bloomington PD
>in the late '60s.) Under some circumstances possession of a gun can
>provide cover for whatever cops decide to do.

Including providing you with a spare gun they carry for just that 
purpose. So you don't actually have to have a gun in order to be in 
possession of one in the eyes of the law.


>  And whether you possess a
>gun or not, you are still rather outgunned in comparison to even a
>rinky-dink police force.

In a many against one scenario.

At 11:36 PM -0700 7/17/04, Miles Jackson wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, joanna bujes wrote:
>
>>  That's the ones about guns....right? That's easy. If the cops have guns,
>  > I want one too.
>  >
>  > Joanna
>  >
>
>That's my wife's take on it too: push comes to shove, we neo-colonists
>will need our muskets to pick off the redcoats again.

This is the many against many scenario that seems a good reason for 
the second amendment.