Individualism and Collectivism . . .

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If you haven't figured it out already, at the center of the "gun control" campaigns is the ongoing struggle between individualism and collectivism.  The statists will never give up their arsenals of deadly weaponry, for the state is defined as a system enjoying a legal monopoly on the use of violence within a given area. Nor will they seriously entertain the proposition that ordinary people are entitled to own weapons as a means of protecting themselves from state violence.  The state is the collective – whose interests are an end in itself; its own reason for being. The rest of us are little more than fungible resources to be transformed and consumed for the benefit of whatever ends are desired by those who presume to own us.
-Butler Shaffer

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