Guns as a barrier to tyranny....
May. 8th, 2013 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daveonI'm open to input from USians on this one.
On a discussion on Facebook (with a liberal friend who is a bleeding heart, Cowboys loving, gun nut*) I'm hitting an impasse. The impasse is coming from this: we have agreed that actually, yes, gun regulation including training and background checks is needed, but I need to meet the gun rights advocates half way and accept that private ownership of guns is something needed as protection of liberal society from tyranny...
So, is this piece of bollocks a new thing? Or is it a recent justification?
Because no matter how I parse this logic, I can't wrap it into a sufficiently pretzel shaped volume to get my head around it. I certainly don't think that position requires me to get halfway to anywhere, because it's so far out into left field for me that I'd get tired walking over there.
So, thoughts? Anybody?
* I do wonder how his head doesn't explode.
On a discussion on Facebook (with a liberal friend who is a bleeding heart, Cowboys loving, gun nut*) I'm hitting an impasse. The impasse is coming from this: we have agreed that actually, yes, gun regulation including training and background checks is needed, but I need to meet the gun rights advocates half way and accept that private ownership of guns is something needed as protection of liberal society from tyranny...
So, is this piece of bollocks a new thing? Or is it a recent justification?
Because no matter how I parse this logic, I can't wrap it into a sufficiently pretzel shaped volume to get my head around it. I certainly don't think that position requires me to get halfway to anywhere, because it's so far out into left field for me that I'd get tired walking over there.
So, thoughts? Anybody?
* I do wonder how his head doesn't explode.
