Quote:robkelk wrote:Go ahead. The US legal system, back when it was founded as a justice system, was based on principles such as "innocent until proven guilty" and "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."Quote:khagler wrote:How about your opponents replace "victim disarmer" with "perpetrator armer"? That isn't a euphemism, either.
I'm not a big believer in euphemisms.
Quote:khagler wrote:There's a simple solution to that: take the weapons away from the armed men.
Personally, I find it rather insulting when someone advocates sending armed men to force me to live my life according to his whims, and murder me if I resist.
Personally, I'm all in favor of abolishing the standing army (as the founders of the US intended) and the police (which today act as a whole bunch of small standing armies). It'll never happen, though--pretty much everyone, especially those who want to disarm the general public, wants the government to have lots and lots of guns so they can impose their will on others.