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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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(...) Aren't the courts supposed to be a part of the gov't? There is a process. (...) Ah, so you are a unisex restroom proponent then. (...) Bigot! I and my 4 female lovers and 1 male lover are being discriminated against! Who says it's only between (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Someone has to lead... and if it's not the gov't *and* the courts, than who? Further, *any* law that excludes a person due to his or her sex is sexual discrimination--we're not talking changing the number of people in a marriage--marriage is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The institution of marriage is devalued, and here is how. If you allow same-sex marriages (remember, this isn't a ban on homosexual marriages), then you open pandora's box WRT to marriage. What about three people who want to get married? How (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This makes interesting imagery :) I can see a lot of people chewing on some 2 x 2 bricks right now. -Anne -- Conformity: Proudly (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. serving painfully boring >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. people since time began. (v_," ; `,-\ (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.space)
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(...) À la Unabomber? Or McVeigh? Or that guy in Ruby Ridge? Or David Khoresh? Or 'Michigan Militia'? Or?... (...) What do you base this assertion on? (Really, I'm curious about it) (...) "Most". Is that comparison valid towards Canada? :-) (...) (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) this is a thing about Canada... so don't worry 'bout it... " It dismisses what it sees as the government's "ridiculous argument" that it needs to go slow in framing any legal changes because there is no "consensus" in Canada. "All Canadians (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What can I say? You set yourself up for the obvious. It needed to be said to draw you off your high horse, but you if you wish to remount... :-) (...) If we continue to pass judgment on it, then the document remains living, not simply a 200 (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You say that like it's a bad thing. But no, I am not, the NRA are misguided, they miss the point when they talk about hunting and home defense. The point is right there in the 2nd amendment. (...) Funny, I often think the same thing when (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Then John's right, it IS specious, used in this context. You can't lay 70 years of building up an underclass via income transfer, 50 years of futile drug warfare and increased loss of liberties, 40 years of failed social engineering, 30 years (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) The comparison was between leaders, not countries. (...) I think it's bothersome, and hence I pointed it out. (...) I've heard that, but don't know from whom it came. (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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