Reply #124: Carin [View All]

"Government is there to protect and enable its citizens and part of that is enacting reasonable restrictions on deadly weapons."

Carin, I do not know which planet you are from, but here on Earth, governments have been consistent and thourough in murdering their own citizens for much of the past two centuries. During the first World War in the Ottoman Empire, the Turks began the piecemeal confiscation of any implement owned by an Armenian that could have use as a weapon. It started with the confiscation of firearms and tools, ostensibly for the "war effort". Then, it escalated to include kitchen knives and about anything of conceivable utility for self-defense. With this, the Armenians were displaced, raped, and slaughtered by the millions. The exception was on the border of the Russian Empire where a large group of Armenians built a mountain redoubt. Turkish infantry could not take it as the Armenians were well armed with rifles and were manufacturing their own munitions. Can you see the lesson here, Carin? Possession of the effective tools of self-defense can save your life. You have a naive view of government.