Like many in the freedom movement, I think he still has the "take my guns lead first" mentality. He needs the arguments against violence and I think he'll take to it quite readily.
Well, I'd like to put a different bit of perspective on this.
Even Ian has a gun for
personal protection, and I fully expect he would be right there for someone else at need, thus demonstrating
group protection is not unthinkable either.
But the threat from "government" isn't personal. It's distributed and nebulous and general. But still a threat.
The "gun polishers" aren't reacting to that feeling of threat any differently than Ian, or anyone else who chooses to have a firearm for personal defense. The reaction is the same, we're just arguing about what the threat really is.
Ian's arguments have reinforced my opinion that killing random government pawns does nothing but empower the government itself. It rationalizes their own militarism, since their agents are "threatened", and we end up with a general escalation of force by government against everyone for the actions of a few.
It is, to paraphrase Clair Wolfe, "Not time to shoot the bastards."
All that said, if a general war of independence from DC does ever break out, I will be relieved that at least the WAITING is over. I expected Waco was a wake up call. I was surprised that only one "federal" building came down, and that only because the FBI blew it up. When that A-10 crashed in Colorado and the military couldn't find it, I did have a niggling little feeling that maybe the soldier's desertions with their equipment had begun.
Do people really go to car races just to see people die in crashes? No, but violence is something everyone deals with, and crash footage is played over, and over. It's called "morbid curiosity".
I WANT THE BUREAUCRATS OUT OF MY LIFE. Who reading this doesn't?
So long as it remains individual responses to individual events, this "war of independence" cannot be fought with violence and have any hope of success. And if it becomes a general uprising,
violence won't be needed.
Now, where'd I put my bore cleaner?