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(...) You know, appealing to ideas in a Jeffersonian mold is an appeal to authority, and as perhaps "THEE" central philosophical figure of the foundations of my country, I consider Jefferson an authority whose wisdom is not easily overcome -- and (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Did those "right to bear arms" people decide to do what you think you would, and use those arms? no, they didn't. Therefore, the arms were irrelevant at best. (...) You take them to court. You take them to the highest court you can. There have (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I don't live "without freedom" or in a "tinpot dictatorship". Get over yourself. Face the facts--there are *democracies* that work without the citizens being armed. And yet you can't deal with that one. You;re doing an end-run around the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote: I don't have a real problem with your overall assertion, but you attempt a few points that really don't benefit your argument: (...) You're suggesting that your wife should have brandished her (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That reasoning isn't entirely sound, and it omits relevant factors. If there are fifty deaths-by-hammer, then we need to ascertain how many hammers were involved. If one guy went on a hammering spree with one ball-peen, then the elimination of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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