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Meat, hunting, and guns
Posted by: Luke kuhn ( Utopian Anarchist Party, U$A ) on February 14, 19100 at 11:31:13:
Interesting the posts here about gun ownership. Obviously, as an anarchist I cannot support giving cops the power to jail people for owning a chunk of inanimate metel. Besides, disarming the people gives those armed psychos in the government almost abslolute power. The real purpose of gun control is to disarm, not criminals who will ignore it, but the general population so they cannot resist the government. For instance, the war on drugs runs into a LOT of trouble with the armed general public in some inner city neighborhoods, and many, many traffic stops have been deterred by the fear of an armed victim(as well as burglaries, etc.) NOBODY is proposing to take the guns away from the government and any criminal can make a gun(or a bomb) from a piece of pipe and some homemade powder(a simple procedure). Therefore, if the bad guys(the cops and other criminals) are going to have guns, than everyone else must also have that right.
Gunpowder, like napalm,m mustard gas and nuclear bombs, is one of
those genies that, once summoned, refuses to be put back in the lamp. Many people have wished they could uninvent explosives, guns, nukes, etc but nobody can do it unless they burn all books on the subject and kill all people who know the matereial-and someone will rediscover it anyway.
Therefore, if you want to control guns, start with the superweapons nobody can afford but large nations and multinationals, and try to equalize the distribution of the other weapons so nobody can hope to gain anything from aggressive warfare(the pentagon is shitting bricks about a coming age of cheap smartbombs anyone can buy and put on an old scud, by the way).
As for killing in fights, that can be done with knives, blunt objects, and even the good ol' bare hands, so if you get rid of the guns, you get stabbings and bludgeonings(also bombings because they are easier than making guns).
The hunting issue is completely seperate. Guns were invented for war, not hunting. I do not eat meat, so I do not hunt. Hunting something you do not eat is murder, by the way. If you insist on eating meat, I think you should get a rifle and hunt ALL your own meat so as not to support the horrors of confinement factory farming. If someone wants to eat me, let them come and hunt me, it's better than being raised in prison for food(some of my PETA and COK friends will kill me for saying this,by the way).
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