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Is anyone else here a liberal or progressive but not vehemently anti-gun ownership?

According to a historian that I saw on the daily show (can't remember the name), before any society has transformed to totalitarian rule it passes through a period of informal intimidation where groups loosely connected to the government intimidate the populace into going along. Historically, this has never succeeded in a society that had ready access to weapons.
via reddit.com, specifically JohnFrum.

This is an interesting comment; has anyone seen this episode?

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Posted June 29, 2009
 
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