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(...) But what was the motivation? All we know is what the Government tells us. (...) So what is your recourse if the Government breaks the law? Besides so long as a single manufacturer of guns exists on the planet, criminals will always have them. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok. I did not know that. (Obviously.) (...) Within our limited knowledge that is absolutely correct. (...) ...to form 'known' molecules you mean. (...) Ok I will concede that using 'only' what we know, there are a finite albeit massively huge (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) *Ahem* They did what they did because they had the means to do it. Read, guns. I failed to present in the previous examples a doubt that remains in my mind: if the purpose of gun ownership is protection agains the abuses of the government, how (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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control. QED. (...) That's fine. We don't have a right to arm bears. :). It isn't in our constitution that "A well regulated militia...". Or, perhaps we take that to mean that the army should guard the country. Oh, wait. They do. Our army doesn't (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) gee, that'd be strange. Statistics from pre CHA: In 1951 the average life expectancy for a male was 66.5 years and 71 years for a female. From relatively recently: (1991). Life Expectancy at Birth; 74.0 years male, 80.6 years female So, by use (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Considering no one knows why these people did what they did (aside from what the government tells us,) I can not say. (...) 10-12 years ago Canadian medical services and eqipment was equal or greater than that of the US. Today they are a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If I could supplement my diet with ABS, I would. Okay, maybe not, though I do have a bucket of old old old lego that appears to have been food for my brother and I when were teeny tiny tots. What's the proper way to serve Lego? Perhaps sushi. (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.space)
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(...) ...Mightily resisting the urge to call John names!... My most civil response to all of the above is: So what?! Let's leave the dog scenario to the side as it is "species out of bounds." The point of marriage generally is to legally bind people (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Nope! but it's a good idea though. Have to be fusion powered I reckon. Steve (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Secularly speaking, I don't know that there's a problem with devaluing marriage. If there is one, I'd like to hear it articulated without appealing to provincial wisdom or religious values. As a matter of secular law, marriage is a contract, (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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