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Re: What Do Dictators Fear Most? GUNS in the hands of the People! Isnt that right Mr. Castro???????? Re: Shooting At The ...

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From: klaatu
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:00
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Terry Moore wrote:
> 
> In article <35B9FC7F.52CA@swbell.net>, tracey12@swbell.net says...
>  And, if American citizens didnt have guns in their posession, control
> freaks like Clinton and his admin. would create a wonderful socialist
> utopia.  We would live under the thumb of government that we could not
> control.  Some people will misuse cars, trucks, knives, explosives,
> guns, etc.  But that is the price of freedom. WE have to realize this
> fact. That, in we are to maintain control of our government, we must be
> well armed.  Therefore, some people will use weapons in the commission
> of a crime.  Similarly, we readily jump into our SUVs and fly down the
> highway at breakneck speeds knowing full well that we have a real chance
> of being killed while driving.  And, we know that 40,000 to 50,000
> Americans die each year on the highway just going to work, or shopping,
> or out to dinner.  That is a huge amount of death!  As many Americans
> die in car accidents each year as died in the entire history of the
> Vietnam war!  However, do you hear government ELECTED officials calling
> for Americans to stay out of those death machines so that they will not
> be killed?  NO! Of course not, unless environmentalist wacko al gore
> fires up his mouth and screams "The Sky is falling!" about some wacko,
> made-up environmental issue.  But, the evil, ELECTED members of our
> government do not fear cars and trucks will hinder their control.  They
> do fear a public that is highly armed and willing to shoot to maintain
> their God Given, Constitutionally Recognized Rights.

All other issues here aside, it is a fact that of the hottest nine years on
record, globally, they were all within the last 11 years. Global warming, all
politics aside, is a very real issue and a very real problem. But what can we
as citizens do about what is clearly the result of corporate influence, much
of it occurring outside the US, through such things as massive slash-and-burn
landclearing practices in third-world countries?


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From: klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>
Subject: Re: What Do Dictators Fear Most?  GUNS in the hands of the People!  Isnt that right Mr. Castro????????      Re: Shooting At The Capital
Date: 1998/07/26
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