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In article <NEWTNews.21520.782530433.woolfson@woolfson.unicom.net|  Eric Woolfson <woolf@unicom.net|  writes:
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| / | | :      Please describe the "hunting" uses of a Tec-9 or an Uzi.
| /|  | | :      Please name one incidence of either one of them being 
| /|  | | :    used in a self-defense role.
| /|  | | :    PS: if you cannot, that's O.K. The NRA admitted they cannot
| /|  | | :    name one, either, and this was on national TV while they were
| /|  | | :    trying to defend these guns. The only reason they could name 
| /|  | | :    for continued sales of them was that "they COULD be used for 
| /|  | | :    hunting". But hunting what, we wonder....
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| /|  Why does the only legitimate purpose of owning an assault rifle or machine 
| /|  gun have to be hunting?  If I ever buy a weapon, I want something like an 
| /Uzi 
| /|  to protect myself from the evil citizens, police, or government persons.  I 
| /|  would never use the weapon on the good citizens, police, or government
| /|  persons.  The second amendment did not furnish me the right to hunt.  It
| /|  furnished me the right to protect myself from tyranny.
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|          I don't know why the NRA could only defend sales of 
|        these weapons with the lame "they could be used for 
|        hunting" excuse.
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|          Maybe they didn't want to say "we need them to shoot
|        police and federal agents if the government becomes too
|        bothersome for us".
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|          At least that would have been a bit more honest, if
|        they think this is a Second Amendment issue........
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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.

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 ....

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.


Another valid reason is to discourage urban terrorists (i.e. criminals)
from ever *trying* to rip you and your family off.

If you do not want to own such ordnance, then don't.  THAT is the
essence of a free society.  Unless, of course, you acknowledge that
we are no longer a free people .... hmmm - what a concept ....

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