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From: alanw@farpoint.sps.mot.com (Alan R. Weiss)
Subject: Re: GUN CONTROL Re: I'd just like to say I support Ann for Governor
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Alan R. Weiss writes :

>OK, I'll say it.
>
>That's exactly why I'd want to have one of those weapons.
>
>Consider Waco, Texas and the massacre of 20 children by "our"
>government.

Remember the people in Waco had amassed a rather impressive collection of
firearms and it did them little good against the government.

>Consider the fact that the D.E.A. can burst in and sieze your home
>and EVERYTHING you own without probable cause - God bless the RICO
>act, don't you know ....

I have difficulty conceiving of a situation where a citizen either uses or
threatens to use deadly force against law enforcement and does not end up
either dead or in jail for a long long time.

>The fact that "our" government cannot protect its own citizens, and
>turns on its own citizens for political reasons, is reason enough
>to protect oneself.  Different people feel different levels
>of paranoia depending on which day they are asked, but NO ONE is
>no longer sure that the Government is so well run and so ethical
>and moral that Bad Surprises couldn't happen.

Vigilence at the ballot box is a more effective way of controlling the 
government than the use of firearms.  If it ever comes to the point where the
average citizen feels compelled to take up arms against our government then
we have no one to blame but each other.  

                           Tim Damron

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