The gun debate is about power alld control. Do you give power to a centralised State and hope against hope that the State will protect your interests or do you arm the people to ensure that no S tate feels powerful enough to ride roughshod over individuals. The gun debate is here to stay. Whether people give up their semi- automatic guns or not relies to a large degree on whether they trust the State to be the sole anned entity in a community. Centralised States rely on military power to maintain their hold over the population.
Decentralised communities rely on active participation in community processes.
The gun debate is essentially a debate about power, who should hold it and how it should be utilised. Victoria's finest, our wonderful political stars j ostled with each otller in their attempts to talk about the Pennington report. As they stand up and strut their stuff, it interesting to hear the garbage that seem to be pouring out of their mouths. Every drug dealer in Victoria must b rubbing their hands in glee as they liste . In one small swoop th .