Intelligent Slashdot comment on NSA spying

[DBoon]

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185486&cid=15307976

If you were actually able to exercise that right, then it might be understandable. But the logic falls down when you consider:

You aren't going to topple the USA government with a few rifles.
When are you going to do this?

When your government suspends the right to trial? Apparently not.
When your government wiretaps the whole country? Apparently not.
When you have dodgy elections? Apparently not.
When you send people abroad to be tortured? Apparently not.
When your executive branch dismisses bothersome lawsuits that might uncover their illegal activities? Apparently not.
So when are you going to topple the government? It seems more like you are going to sit back and let your government turn into a dictatorship, all the while saying "we're free because we have the right to own guns..."

If you aren't going to use them, you might as well not have them. Your guns have done nothing whatsoever to protect your freedom and they will continue to do nothing as long as they are not used.

[ComerPerro]

1. Rare moment of clarity from Slashdot.

[htuttle]

2. Most Iraqis were allowed to own machine guns while Saddam was in power

Did it help? Nope.

[MrModerate]

3. And now every household has an AK-47 or two . . .

And they use them to kill their neighbors.

This is progress? And what we want for America?

[DS1]

4. Yeah

I ran across that too, chuckled

[DBoon]

5. I'm convinced that for some people, guns are a religious fetish

Possessing magical powers to thwart of evil tyrranical governments without ever firing a shot