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Sun Jan 8 20:34:52 GMT 2006

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 docrickfry at aol.com wrote:

> "One of the few purposes of government is to restrain men from injuring
> one another...."  Thomas Jefferson, 2nd Inaugural address As to this
> "brink of destruction" nonsense, seems England, Australia, Japan, France
> Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Fiunland
> etc etc etc, all democracies with strict gun control and a small
> fraction of the homicide, suicide and unintentional firearm death rate
> of the US, are not exactly showing any signs of their liberty structure
> collapsing anytime soon.... ERF

(1) I am quite certain that you are no more educated about the internal
workings of this long list of countries than I am, so debating this side
issue is an excersize in both misdirection and futility.

(2) The current debate is in reference to "gun control" in the United
States.  Within that context, I believe that even you will agree that it
is, at this point in time, 100% impossible to remove guns from the
country, yes?  With that established, would you rather have the option of
defending yourself against potentially fatal attack, or not?  If no, then
why don't you just tie a sign to you, your wife, and your children,
stating "WE ARE UNARMED, AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN SELF-DEFENSE.  PLEASE RAPE,
ROB AND KILL US.", and head for the nearest high crime area - since that
is effectively what you are advocating that millions of Americans should
do.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org
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'The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments
it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of
the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext
whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the
brink of destruction.'

St. George Tucker

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