In response to
The Blood of Innocents

Hamilton in IL
Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 11:27 PM

florin,

You're running on emotion and thinking short-sighted, like Craigclev.

History shows that governments cannot be 100% trusted. Government tyranny is a true potential in a macro sense, just as one man's desire to dominate over another man, or a woman, is tyranny in a micro sense. It's an ugly yet true aspect of humanity. Governments accomplish and maintain tyranny by unholy relationships with the military. Think, the Third Reich. The Founders conceived of the second amendment and an armed citizenry as their means to help prevent this. This is the reason for these weapons. You rail at the Newtown carnage, yet this type of murder is actually down across the country. You rail at the Newtown carnage, yet you don't see the perpetual carnage in inner cities, across the country, including in Connecticut, that occurs every year. Are those victims' lives worth any less? I say to you that if you rail at the Newtown carnage, you should have some perspective and realize that its scope will pale in comparison to what we would have in store for us if our government became tyrannical. You're like a lost hiker in the woods, bitching over a stubbed toe, while unwittingly, you're very close to taking a fatal step over the falls.