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by treadlightly
Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:17 pm
Forum: Other States
Topic: California LEOs selling illegal guns
Replies: 22
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Re: California LEOs selling illegal guns

The Annoyed Man wrote: I can assure you that I am not a coward, but I did move out of the state when the opportunity presented itself.
Poor choice of words on my part, TAM. I meant that instead of fighting for my rights, I would move if I could, something that's not always possible or desirable. I don't want to leave Texas. If our civil rights started reversing their current path I probably wouldn't move but I'd sure think about it. I'd fight with word processor and what good, productive activism I could join up with.

I sense there is nothing cowardly about anyone on this forum.

Here's hoping California comes to its senses. I genuinely have faith that could happen. There are loonies out there, just like everywhere, but there are also good, level-headed people who deserve respect and their civil rights.
by treadlightly
Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:55 am
Forum: Other States
Topic: California LEOs selling illegal guns
Replies: 22
Views: 8754

Re: California LEOs selling illegal guns

I'm not - and probably won't ever be - from California. Hard for me to comment with precision.

Anarchy is bad, tyranny is bad, lawlessness in one case is moral civil disobedience. In most others, hooliganism.

Law unequally applied is tyranny.

Civil rights not defended in some states means those states practice tyranny.

Human nature includes a lot of pettiness. Some, maybe all, of those officers are engaging in "illicit" arms deals for the same reason heroin traffickers run drugs. Money.

But if their motive is to bypass tyranny, it's a little different. It's the wrong method, since the majority in California seem to want to exclude themselves from portions of the American experience, but on the other hand, what if the majority of Americans voted to ban all guns?

Is it moral to respect the will of the majority when it exceeds the Constitution?

Personally, I'd take the coward's way out. I'd move out of the state. But what if enough of them moved to Texas to halt our own swing away from repressive law?

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