I don't want to get into gun laws again, its a long and pointless arguement.
Foreign relations are in some ways like relations like people, only far more baseless. People do silly things, people do things not in their best interest, for nations this is very rare, usually smaller tinpot dictatorships. Ideals, principles, ethics mean sweet fuck all. As a result a nation like the US has to answer to noone but itself for its actions, noone has the power to inflict punishment on it. Being a GIC doesn't matter when you're king of the hill.
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If you don't distinguish libertarianism in general (and the right for law-abiding citizens to be armed, in particular) from "the right to gun people down for looking at you funny", there's very little ground for discussion of anything close to that topic. You simply don't seem to be able to picture anyone arming themselves without an endless TV-like bloodbath ensuing immediately.
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I live in a safe community without guns, why risk the change? There is no need. Hell i'm generally libertarian, i'd rather see a society with crime and drugs than an overcontrolled civilized 'paradise' Brave New World style but when the average person has to carry a gun to feel safe, i beleive something is very wrong. Pontificate civil rights all you want, it doesn't change that fact in my eyes.