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Rich out-of-state anti-gun activists are pushing misleading ballot initiatives in Maine, Nevada and California this year. And they’ll be coming to your state soon.
Here is a solid rule of thumb for those who wish to remain free: Do not allow politicians to reduce the complex to the simplistic.
Henry David Thoreau famously proposed that “that government is best which governs least.” And indeed it is. But that government is also best which governs slowly, carefully and deliberately. That democracy is best in which the people understand what is being debated in their name. And that country is best in which politics is conducted with openness, with nuance and with honor—especially where the fundamental rights of the people are at stake. |
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| There are those that say he has the Napoleonic syndrome. Evidence submitted so far say they are right. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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