Re: Glenn V. Fell for Lies About Georgia Voting Law

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 4:42:27 PM UTC-4, ajohnstone wrote:
> And what is your response to a loyal officer of the US armed forces, (not=
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> a non-com as the policeman automatically assumed) is pepper-sprayed and a=
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> gun pointed at him for having a genuine fear for his safety in a routine=
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> regularly practiced in the use of his firearm, possessed a weapon and=20
> should not have been armed.=20

I never know who you are posing questions to since your method of 
responding doesn't include the pertinent post. My reaction to this is it 
seems like a couple goon cops who should be held accountable for their 
actions if they are as described in the news reports. The fact that we 
have a few racist cops is not an indication that police forces are 
inherently racist. Racists exist in just about every profession you can 
name so why would we think there wouldn't be any among the cops.

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> But the my real sorrow is for the shooting by 3 yr old of his baby brothe=
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> Easy to blame the laxity of the parents but i dare say in many households=
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> a loaded weapon is kept under unsecure conditions as in the case of=20
> McMasters, carelessly left in his car only to be stolen.=20

Sadly, many young children die every year because of careless parents and 
firearms are a tiny piece of that equation. Death by firearms doesn't even 
make the top ten of accidental deaths among young children. A backyard 
swimming pool, even a little inflatable one is a far great hazard to a 
toddler than a gun in the house. In my little berg of Utica, Oh some years 
ago, a three year old drown in a backyard swimming pool. The home was on 
US-62 which I travel on frequently when going home and I happened to be 
driving by in the immediate aftermath. It appeared to me the cop was 
trying to comfort the mother who just realized her toddler had drowned. I 
could almost guess what had happened and it was confirmed in the news 
reports the next day.

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> As for the 2nd Amendment that many say is to prevent anti-constitutional=
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> take-over of the government, how did that turn out for the militias who=
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> genuinely believe Biden is not the legitimate head of state. Seems that=
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> their right to bear arms was ineffectual when faced with that proverbial=
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> "deep state".

There were few if firearms taken into the Capitol and to the best of my 
knowledge the only shots were fired by Capitol police. What happened on 
January 6 was just a tantrum by a small number of crazy pissed off people. 
It is not the kind of thing that would trigger a wide scale revolt. That 
is something that could, would, and should happen if we ever had a 
government that usurped powers not legally obtained through constitutional 
processes. Suppose we had a government that declared the Bill or Rights 
was no longer the law of the land and that elections were being suspended. 
IOW, a scenario we have seen play out in other countries around the world. 
That is the point at which armed revolution would become justifiable and 
it wouldn't just be a few hundred people storming the Capitol. It would be 
all out civil war.

Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, spells out when 
such revolution would be justified:

"That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, 
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute 
new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing 
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their 
safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should 
not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all 
experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while 
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to 
which they are accustomed."