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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:39:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > I shall quote a very bad film to illustrate my point:
> > “Ay, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying
> > in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days
> > from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and
> > tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our
> > freedom?”
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> It wasn't a bad film--it would have been a bad history text, if it had
> aspired to be a history text at all. As a piece of fiction, it was quite
> effective. Now The Patriot--*that* was a bad film.
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> Dave!
Idunno, a film that actually admitted that a cannon shot essentially an iron
bowling ball can't be all bad...
Bruce
(okay, so I skip the over-wrought story on the DVD player)
:-)
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| (...) It wasn't a bad film--it would have been a bad history text, if it had aspired to be a history text at all. As a piece of fiction, it was quite effective. Now The Patriot--*that* was a bad film. Dave! (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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