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Originally Posted by marleypumpkin
If you're that moronic that when put a gun in yr hand, you feel the urge to become criminal, than you don't deserve a gun. But as you state, Homo Lawfuls, are obeying the law if they seek gun ownership legally.
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Right, this is the statement I disagree with...
'Gun', to a great many Americans, represents 'freedom' or 'liberty'. Which is why Herr Pumpkin can replace the object of representation with the ideal of the representation - in one post, 'weed'.
Unfortunately, the referent, the object, the referred and the ideology must at some point have some
purpose.
I'll articulate this otherwise - if you replace the
potentially prohibited object of
ideological representation with another
object (a terrifically postmodern/ post-Lacanian project, by-the-by) its intensity, its
represented ideological intensity remains the same - so if 'gun' represents liberty (or, if you like, inhibiting sovereignity through
revoltus in potentialus), 'banana' (if threatened) can represent the same.
The problem is that 'gun' is also a particular object, and the purpose (forgive me if I get too Heidegarrian on your asses) of this object (which, to re-iterate, seems to represent 'liberty' in many American mind) is to blow cunting great holes in things. If you emit the statement 'every American has the right to own the banana' and the subtext is 'a banana represents freedom and liberty [from the crown]' then I have no problems. The problem comes when you get down to the particulars, which I'll put in big letters:
GUNS SERVE NO PURPOSE OTHER THAN STICKING CUNTING GREAT HOLES IN THINGS.
Again, I'll apologise if I'm just re-iterating parochial British sentiments that you Americans are tired of hearing with your vastly superior arguments of liberty.