In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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Yet so many Libertarians still refuse to attack Democrats. They'd rather aim their fire at fellow teammates in the Republican Party.
And you wonder why our limited government side never wins?
Opposition from those to whom you are opposed is not surprising.
Opposition (or betrayal) hurts worst when it comes from those you are close to.
Surely, you fellow travelers within Team R will come to your senses and support the Libertarian candidates for office, right?
The limited government side is the Libertarian side. Join us, we'll win.
;)
You're (as usual) missing the point
Which is a government that derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed does not need a police presence of absurd proportions and capabilities to protect itself from the citizens.