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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (5925)2/15/2001 9:32:17 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (4) of 82486
 
there are still a lot of people who think government is overstepping its limits and can't be kept under control by peaceful means, and that (see the Declaration of Independence) the population has both the right and the duty to be prepared to overthrow it by force. This requires being armed, and being armed with weapons that the government may not know about and aren't in a tidy government file.

This raises another question: what is more dangerous to the average citizen, the possibility of a government unrestrained by private armament or the possibility that a minority of armed citizens might decide that armed opposition to the government is necessary to achieve redress on some issue that only they are concerned about.

Who decides when armed opposition to the government is justifiable or necessary? If a bunch of urban crack dealers decide that armed rebellion is a legitimate response to onerous and oppressive drug legislation, is that a use of private armament that the rest of us should applaud?
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