Quote Originally Posted by donniedorko
You ARE extremists, sorry. To think that citizens should be able to buy military grade arms is nuts. We have enough problems as it is now.

I mean, yeah, sure if Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have them we should too! They also have public hangings, no rights for women, and forced religion. Woohoo! Let's do that here too. And any guesses as to what the penalty for weed is in Saudi?

Yes, I was referring to the Americans with Disabilities Act. And no, civil rights were not "going to happen anyway." Maybe in another couple hundred years. But there was absolutely nothing short of the power of the federal government that could have forced the Southern states to give voting rights to their minority citizens. Indeed, the whole idea of protecting the minority from the majority is the downfall of libertarian philosophy. There's just nothing that will make those changes happen in the fairytale world libertarians inhabit, and when asked about it, their response is to spout platitudes about how things would change eventually, when anyone familiar with American history (or indeed world history) knows that isn't true.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." -Barry Goldwater