I would much rather have discontent voiced, wouldn't you? Isn't it the proper thing to do before actually picking up the guns? Isn't it important to express in words that consent to govern is being lost before that consent has been totally lost?
Martin Ent Inc wrote: The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
PrintSmith wrote: The 2nd Amendment was put into place so that those who were no longer being governed with their consent would have recourse to address that lack of consent ....
1. 2nd Amendment, good.
2. Last recourse against tyranny, good.
3. Trying to apply it to a looney-tunes raving firebrand who looks like he's coming down off a biploar manic high because he doesn't like who the people lawfully elected? Well, that's a line that when you cross it, you enter the looney-tunes world yourself.
Do the poor and unemployed really pay taxes? Oh, we all do in the form of sales taxes and gasoline taxes, but they damn sure don't pay income taxes. What is fair to one is not apparently fair to the other. What is FAIR? And to whom?
It appeared to me as if, as usual, you changed what you meant, Wayn-O.
Are you really trying to be helpful, or just to remain an as*****? If is the former, I will have to remember to say, thank you, if, as I suspect, it is the latter, well
Wayne-O wrote: So you don't have to scroll up to catch up...
Wayne-O wrote:
CriticalBill wrote:
Wayne-O wrote: In other words, only tax the poor and unemployed?
Did I say that? NO.
CriticalBill wrote: Don't tread on the productive, don't tread on the job creators, don't tread on the risk takers.....
What did you mean by "don't tread on"?? I took it as "don't tax."
After eliminating the productive, job creators and risk takers, who is left to tax?
Why would you presume that it meant don't tax at all Wayne? Or were you simply trying to follow the tired and worn out Alinsky playbook and blow out of any sense of proportion what was said in an attempt to turn it into something that wasn't said and then attempt to force the other side into defending something that they never said. You folks are going to need a new playbook before November of 2012, seriously. Even Alinsky was smart enough to understand that a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.