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Re: figures for gun-fetiscists

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From: Don Baldwin
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 05:48
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In article <1993Mar21.014405.5705@apgea.army.mil> ahgrabow@apgea.army.mil 
(Alexander H. Grabowski <ahgrabow>) writes:
>Bert Brecht, who was a political refugee in the US, once said: every
>country has got the government the people deserve. If you want to fight 
>tyranny,, VOTE before it is to late! Dont sit on your TV- and convenience-
>softened ***es, but stop tyranny before it begins. The percentage
>of Germans voting in the late 20s, before Hitler took control, was dangerously
>low. I think that the percentage of people voting here is far too low, also.

Didn't an unusually high percentage of the population vote last November?

>If you think you have to fight tyranny with arms, don't forget to shoot
>yourself too. YOU are responsible, because YOU let it happen!

Huh?  Let it happen, how?

Personally, I'll take your "you can't fight tyranny with guns" philosphy
seriously when the US Armed Forces stop using firearms as weapons and
adopt Philosophy/PoliSci texts as their weapon against tyranny...

    don
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