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In article <369b71c7.69035460@news.dimensional.com>,
   weiser@dimensional.com (Scott Weiser) wrote:
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>No decision to ban firearms for "life and liberty" reasons can
>possibly be rational, because history has proven time and time again
>that when governments collect the guns, tyranny is not far behind.

Not just the guns, Scott. This goes way further back than them. The 
unarmed martial arts were formed in Asia because emperors would decree that 
only their armies could bear arms. People needed ways to defend themselves. And 
yes, it was tyranny back then too.

Like one of the founders of this country said:
�I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people...To disarm the people 
is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.� - George Mason
 
>Such decisions to ban firearms are usually made out of irrational
>*fear* of firearms and a short-sighted, self-indulgent and ignorant
>agenda which denies the greater harms which inevitably result from the
>confiscation of private arms.

Amen.

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And that's probably JUST my opinion. I could be wrong. :)

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