[lbo-talk] Where is the left argument for gun rights?

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Mon May 20 07:18:43 PDT 2013


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote:


> I wouldn't know the truth or otherwise of that claim. If, as you claim,
> most Americans are thus inclined, then they are not mentally equipped to
> own a firearm (let alone create a socialist commonwealth). It may be best
> if they were taken off them for their own good. At least us rednecks know
> what guns are for - poaching game and maybe duffing some stock here and
> there when times are hard. We are thus not the ones the law abiding middle
> class should be worried about.
>

Bill's reply illustrates another problem with the notion of gun rights being a natural mass-left issue: most of the rest of the industrial world seems to think that US attitudes towards guns are crazier than a soccer ball skinned with assholes.

-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."



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