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palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer) writes:

>Well, don't worry.  We silly Americans tend to see the role of government
>much differently from people in other countries.  If you really, honestly,
>believe that it is the government's responsibility to protect your family
>at all times and under all circumstances, then you are doomed to suffer the
>fate that inevitably follows giving a government the power that must
>accompany that kind of responsibility.

Come on, learn to read. Where did I say "government's responsibility to
protect your family at all times and under all circumstances


>By the way, the whole idea of having an armed citizenry is that the guns
>should never NEED to be used... the fact that people have them and are
>willing to use them to protect their liberty is enough.

Unfortunately you guys do use them all the time it seems. And you will
eventually get yourselves a dictator elected to protecrt you from your
indiscriminate use of them in the cause of liberty.


>Well, about 200 years ago most of the people (to the south of you) all said
>those exact words, and they didn't quite all die.  It seems they even built

It's interesting that when we look at Britian and the USA today, most of
the world has a hard time deciding which has more liberty. So all of
those people sacrificed in the revolution- did they die in vain?




>And what are you going to do when the government decides that it doesn't
>want to throw out the current "experiment?"  If you have already given
 
 Who elects that government? HJow will this dictatorship you fear come
 into being? Of course it can happen and when it does it will with the
 agreement of the vast majority of the population, all of whom have guns
 to make sure you too fall into line.