“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
George Orwell
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
George Orwell
Exactly. In a democracy it’s action would be welded shut and it will stay on the wall as pure decoration. In a constitutional republic it will be in your hands where they don’t want it, it’s action functioning flawlessly as you smite tyrannical scum with it!
I keep a scoped .22 on a simple wood 2-gun rack on the wall. For skunks, woodchucks, raccoons etc.
My wife hates it; she doesn’t like guns.
I like the sound of Orwell’s “symbol of democracy”.
Rifle on the wall is symbol of anarchy. DIY self-defense. Orwell was an avowed socialist, a democracy is socialism’s middle name. One of them.