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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
Gun advocates and the NRA
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
a reply to: RobotBomb
Yeah, he's probably afraid of the dangerous cowards with guns who can't resolve anything with their words.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: TheAmazingYeti
It's even easier to force your opinion on others if you are the only one holding a gun.
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: TheAmazingYeti
It's even easier to force your opinion on others if you are the only one holding a gun.
My point exactly. If you can't make a rational argument just scare your opponent into submission. #Merica
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: TheAmazingYeti
Have you looked at the world around us lately? Do you really want to be on the losing end of someone who has a gun and wants to hurt you, or your family members? Or force you to give them all of your life's savings that you've worked so hard for?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: TheAmazingYeti
It's even easier to force your opinion on others if you are the only one holding a gun.
My point exactly. If you can't make a rational argument just scare your opponent into submission. #Merica
So why do you want to disarm people so they will be forced to obey an ideology or belief?
Or are you arguing FOR authoritarian government?
Apologies if you are.
Then it makes more sense.
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: TheAmazingYeti
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: TheAmazingYeti
It's even easier to force your opinion on others if you are the only one holding a gun.
My point exactly. If you can't make a rational argument just scare your opponent into submission. #Merica
So why do you want to disarm people so they will be forced to obey an ideology or belief?
Or are you arguing FOR authoritarian government?
Apologies if you are.
Then it makes more sense.
I didn't say anything about disarming people. I just said you're coward if you NEED a gun.
As the father was winning the brawl, the other man pulled out a gun, asking, “What the [expletive] are you going to do now?”