MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Owning Guns Doesn't Preserve Freedom
By artappraiser on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 3:17pm |By Casey Michael, The Atlantic, April 25, 2013
Studies show there is very little correlation between heavily armed citizens and the presence of democracy in countries around the world
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/owning-guns-doesnt-preserve-freedom/275287/
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Comments
It's real jargon that guns protect our freedom, like that gay marriage harms traditional marriages.
If guns = freedom, liberty, equality and prosperity and all that jazz, Afghanistan would have been the Land Of Opportunity, right?
There was actually this newspaper article I read a couple days ago where a bunch of people were interviewed and said a big reason they own guns is because they distrust the government's ability to protect them. If that's what gun ownership in this country were really about, you'd think you'd see alot more robust, small town community police forces - it's not about that at all among gun nuts, it's about fetishization.
by Orion on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 5:56am