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

[Carl Remick]

>From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
>
>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.
>
>Miles

No, thank you very much.  I don't value my odds in that type of asymmetrical 
warfare -- standing in the doorway of my home with a six-shooter like 
Yosemite Sam, holding off the assembled might of the Pentagon.

BTW, concerning doomed survivalism, one golden moment of F911 that I have 
not seen praised enough is that excerpt from the preposterous marketing 
video made by that safe-room manufacturer.  I think the glowing vision 
offered there -- of imprisoning yourself in an armored Port-O-San so that 
you safely "enjoy life, sipping a fine Bordeaux" (or words to that effect) 
-- is the perfect encapsulation of what the pursuit of happiness has 
devolved to in today's US.

Carl

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