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(...) faces. (...) the (...) That IS rather an amusing tableaux! Thanks. As to why you wait for the other guy, according to all the western lore I absorbed from all those movies, it's so that you are acting in self defense, he started it... seems (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) to (...) I have this silly picture in my mind of a western showdown at high noon, where the two participants square off. Crowds gather. Sweat drips down their faces. Steely eyes glare unblinkingly. Fingers twitch, waiting for the other guy to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) oppressive? (...) which (...) You wanted the ten commandments in schools. That's forcing your religion on someone else. (...) have (...) not (...) My point remains: If we aren't teaching prayers and the 10 commandments in school, and we (USA) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My issue there is the slippery slope. Just as with seatbelts. Note well that I support seat belt usage and I've even come to terms with mandatory seat belt usage. But once locks are required to be shipped, it's not much of a stretch to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll clarify my point if it was a little murky: Frank stated the purpose of the 2nd amendment was for the populace to keep the government in check (or words to that effect). That may have have been in part what the 2nd amendment is about, but (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) gun (...) If the gun had a trigger lock when the thief found it, would he have stolen it? He probably would have. It sure would have taken a lot more effort on his part to remove the lock and get the gun into working condition. I'm also (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) how (...) would (...) by (...) little (...) Thank you Larry. I'm glad that I know of at least one individual who has a relatively safe storage method. I understand the need for speed and the need for safety as well. It sounds like you have (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ...Windows is case insensitive, so a link to 'name.dat' will bring up 'name.DAT' just fine... but when u transfer it to a unix box, all the links to 'name.dat' fail :-/ ...It isn't that much a problem, except that occasionally when creating a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I do live on the other (north) side of town. I went high school on the north side too. I was just a teenage observation that I had while in school. No concubines there that *I* could find. Believe me, I was looking. :-) (...) -Duane (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Disagreed with, but not refuted. (...) Once again, an over emotional knee-jerk reaction to something I didn't say. You ignore my point that they are currently posted at the Supreme Court and have absolutely nothing to do with what happens (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gosh. Imagine the logistics of who goes with whom (and to do what). The possibilities for disaster boggle the mind... Kevin (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Today. Seat belts were once required equipment on cars but not required to be worn by passengers. Flawed analogy but the principle holds. It is not a large leap from "all A will be supplied with X under penalty of law" to "all citizens with A (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My gun is kept locked in a box with a combination lock I can silently work by feel. It's not loaded, but the bullets are in a speed loader in the box. Trigger locks increase the time it takes (me, anyway) to get my gun ready to use, when I am (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In what sense? I could name off a number of things but shan't. (...) Ouch. I've listened to that, it's mind rotting even in small doses. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This point has been debated here before. It turns on the intent of the authors. I can't cite the particular Paper, but the Federalist papers speak to this point. It also turns on the meaning of "well regulated" (and of Militia) which many hold not (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While I am convinced Janet Reno is a murderer, and I can easily and with a clear conscience condone firing back when I am fired upon first, by men hiding in a hiding place within my own compound, with no warning or prior notice (Waco and Ruby (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That explains a lot. But I thought you lived on the other side of Denver? What if sex education included a practical exam? Now there's an idea. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Generally the more laws you have, the more selectively you can enforce them, if you so choose. 22,000 gun laws are about 21,853 (Plus or minus 12) too many. How about reducing to the following: - if you allow your gun to be misused, you're liable (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I would let this whole post of yours slide as it repeats the same refuted themes. But I can't let this one item go. (...) It is NOT AT ALL hard to say that this is government mandated religion, and the fact that you don't seem to see why shows that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Brad's first post probably takes the record for "widest fan" in that it had more posts from different people, although the average debate thread seems to have lots and lots of posts. But most of the posts are from the usual gang of suspects, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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