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I suppose I am that element who is a hysterical hater and vicious killer wannabe, but an unloaded firearm is stupidity. That is one objection, another is that it seems counterproductive to me if we are trying to get them to listen to us. We know they will not listen to us out of respect or concern for the law of the land or any shadow of a sense of morality. They will listen out of fear.
So now, we offer proof that they have no reason to fear because we will go unarmed if they want us to do so. An unloaded firearm is identical to being unarmed.
While I appreciate all the work and trouble so many are going to, to make a statement. I don't think anyone has really paid attention to the message they will read, no matter what message we think we will have sent.
That message is simply this, "We have no reason to consider what these people want or to consider what is the right thing to do. We can let them talk and carry signs and do whatever other ineffectual things they might because we still control them. We tell them they can have their guns, but they can't load them. If they will let us boss them around like that, then we still haven't committed the "intolerable act" and we can move against them some more, after they all go home thinking they did something."
I wish I didn't see it that way. I enjoyed my naivete before I actually got their message. I seem to be alone in my own camp.
Apr 8, 2010, 10:02:35 PM
Posted to Rules of Non-Engagement