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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)A private citizen, with 10K, can buy a VUCLAN MINIGUN from the manufacturer. WHy is this important, because the GD FBI has them.
Explain to me why a law enforcement agency needs a wepon whose sole purpose is to level gigantic crowds or vaporize a single target from an aircraft, its as ludicrous as you would seem to think a private citizen owning a wepaon that only puts out a .223 round and can't do it any faster than you can pull the trigger.
Also, tyranny comes in many forms. We will never have to oppose our military, I know a fair number of soldiers and veterans (all of whom support the ability to purchase assault rifles) and none of them would ever take up arms against citizens of this country. I honestly don't feel that will ever change.
HOWEVER, corporations with security forces will still be able to purchase the weapons they are trying to forbid private citizens from owning. The same corporations that are buying our elections and buying laws that fill prisons. THIS is a tyranny as well that we need to have a check against.
I'll say it again, and this is true of ALL of our rights, including this one: you don't like it? leave, because if you stand on the side of taking away our ability to change things violently when necessary then you stand on the side of tyranny.