JP>-> JP>If true, I find that last one **REAL** curious.  What kind of
JP>-> JP>REAL libertarian doesn't own guns?
JP>-> One who doesn't want to.
JP>-> That's about as deranged a question as asking what sort of *real*
JP>-> pro- choicer doesn't have a few abortions.
JP>I don't think thats a good analogy, Nolan.  Being Pro-Choice is about
JP>the Freedom to choose to have an abortion or the Freedom to choose to
JP>have a child.
And being pro-2nd amendment is about the right to bear arms, not the
obligation to own a gun.
JP>The interesting question is:  **WHY** doesn't he want to own a gun?
Perhaps because he doesn't want to?
JP>Does he think he doesn't need one because the police will protect
JP>him?
Or perhaps he simply doesn't want one?
JP>Is he a pacifist, who believes it is more ethical to allow someone
JP>else to kill him rather than kill another human being himself?
Perhaps.  Although considering the fire of his words, I rather doubt it.
JP>Neither of those possibilities say anything good about his judgement.
Or you if this is truly the only reasons you can come up with for not
owning a gun.
JP>If he truly understands that the 2nd Ammendment *AIN'T** about
JP>and hunting target shooting, that it's intended to keep the
JP>and government in line, he chooses NOT to own a gun himself, what
JP>does that say, Nolan?
That he doesn't want to own a gun?
JP>That, he, himself, would not put his OWN life
JP>on the line and oppose tyranny?
Are you so naive to think that killing yourself with a gun is the only
way to oppose tyranny?
JP>I'm trying to do a little conciousness raising here, Nolan.
Are you?  Or are you instead playing a smear campane?
JP>Larry Pratt, of Gun Owners of America, wrote an article that appeared
JP>in one of the gun mags a few years ago. (Guns & Ammo, I think)  It
JP>was something along the lines of "Ten Mistakes Gun Owners Make in
JP>Politics".
JP>One of the mistakes was this:  ANY politician can buy a Life
JP>Membership in the NRA simply by writing a $500 check to the NRA.
JP>Many politicians do.  Whenever some gun owner gets up at a meeting
JP>and asks a question about gun control, instead of answering it
JP>directly, the politician simply says, "I'm an NRA Life Member."  The
JP>gun owner then sits down, satisfied that the politician MUST be a
JP>good guy.  Right?
Yes, see it all the time around here.  Vote republican, sit down
satisfied.  Thhbbbt.
JP>Right!  Remember George Bush?
At least I had the brains not to vote for him. 
JP>Now I'm getting concerned that some people seem to be treating the
JP>word "libertarian" the same way.  Politician says he's a
JP>"libertarian", you can stop worrying and just vote for him.  Right?
That I would agree with.
JP>I fear it 'taint neccessarily so, Nolan.
I agree.  One should always look and learn.  But not create ghosts that
are not their either.  And I fear that is what you are doing.  There are
many reasons for not owning a gun.  Far more then the two you've come up
with.  If you're really worried about it, ask him.  But a smearing worry
game is the same sort of thing the republican & democrat spin doctors do
to each other.
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