The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 18 Mar 2009, 08:06 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:06:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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Son of Witz wrote:

> But if there was a revolt, they would quash it so fast and could
> declare Martial Law, and then our second amendment rights would mean
> exactly squat.

That's exactly what the right is for, to have guns accumulated ahead of 
time. The tyrant can declare it taken away, but he can't enforce it 
universally. Who will conduct the billions of building searches to find 
everywhere that hundreds of millions of firearms and trillions of rounds 
of ammunition might be hidden?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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