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 Posted: Fri Jun 26th, 2009 05:16 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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Here is another sound bite of sorts:

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts269.html

 

I find this:

 

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Consider the propagandistic term, "gun violence," popularized by gun control advocates. This is a form of reification by which inanimate objects are imbued with the ability to act and to commit violence. Guns, of course, cannot be violent in themselves. Violence comes from people who use guns and a variety of other weapons, including fists, to commit violence.

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How is that any different than blaming this or that on "the government" or "the state"?

 

I see no difference; the end result is an impetus to kill them all – indiscriminately.

 

Collective punishment is invented by collectivists?

 

Is that too ambiguous?