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Fear of the government makes Americans more likely to reach for a gun
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The survey, administered in May by consumer research company GFK, also found that 10.5% of respondents had purchased a gun because of their fears.
“Fear of the government had the strongest relationship with buying a gun because of fear,” said Chapman survey researcher L. Edward Day. “People who have purchased a gun because of fear also have high levels of fear of technology and crime.”
But the data show that in cases like these, the consequences of owning a gun can be a lot scarier than the fear that motivates the purchase. |
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PHORTO
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Idiocy. The Constitution was written to deliberately bind government power, precisely BECAUSE of fear of government on the part of our Founders. |
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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville |
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