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Darel L. Long's avatar

Your attempt to repudiate history and chastise men is unwarranted and misguided. The citizens of New Zealand were told if they turned in their guns, the government would maintain peace and order. Didn't you read Paul's headline where they have fallen to Tyranny? Now the only people who have the guns are those enforcing tyranny? No reasonable man or woman should ever promote guns unless it's the last resort and now one of my friends who lives in New Zealand who refused the jab is in jail.

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denise ward's avatar

What did you miss that I wrote? I said I'm not for giving up guns. What my beef is this constant reliance on guns and nothing else. What are you going to do - go shooting your way through life? Guns didn't work because here we are, same situation, same story. Everyone should have seen the writing on the wall ages ago. But they didn't so what now at the final hour? Well there are still some things we can do - like take money out of bank accounts and close them, learn to live on the cash and barter economy, look for alternative currencies (not crypto), boycott big stores especially like Amazon and Walmart. Yes, people have to go without for a while, but that's how we win. It will only be temporary and if people had the spine to do that, the inconvenience would be brief, but on the other side of the wave lays a very abundant new world. We can get through this and with flying colors, but it won't happen if we rely on guns. We have to you the old noggin now. Even guns won't help you, they've got drones and directed energy weapons. Guns are like water pistols in comparison. Intelligence is going to get us out of this and that is all in my view that can do it this time. Men have been fluffing it up for eons. This time is very different to any time in previous his-story.

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Barry Varkel's avatar

Good for you Denise;))

Well said.

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Barry Varkel's avatar

The good ole' swashbuckling frontier days of the USA are still uppermost in so many peoples' minds. As are the founding fathers and all the Aesops fables about freedom and personal choice. It never existed, never will. It was just another fiction created to soothe the frightended general working class population. I cringe every time I hear about the "founding fathers" concept used in current political debates and legal arguments in court cases.

Stop living in an abstract past of 300 years ago and wake up to the contemporary BS happening right now, and day and night, ever since the end of the WW2.

Covid was the atomic bomb of realisation that everyone's country, the world over, had abandoned them, and it was an innocence lost all over again on an unimaginable scale.

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