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| Once upon a time, (on Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:04:05 GMT, to be precise!), Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities.... (...) All Americans are psychotic, gun nuts???? :o) to the billionth power! (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Damn. I'm allergic to nuts. I wonder if Canada will take me? I understand that there are plenty of psychos there. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) There may be many psychos there, but at least they're polite. I lived in Buffalo for 4 years and got enamored of canada. Well, mainly of its beer. I keep threatening to defect, but until they pass the ERA here I won't have to. :) Patricia (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Absolutely. And let's burn all copies of Lott we can find, using the original Constitution as lighting-fluid. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Not all American's own guns, much less being "gun nuts". It is written in our Constitution, the right to bear arms, simply to arm the citizens just in case they are tired of a overbearing, federal monstrosity that is devouring our personal liberties (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Dude, you need a sarcasm detector. Actually, since I don't see the people rising up against the government anytime soon, that argument is dead in the water.. Also, overthrowing the government by force is illegal anyway. You can always get guns (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Ugh, I go on a 5 day vacation, and I get back to this! Oh well! :) (...) It doesn't matter if "that argument is dead in the water" (I don't think it is), the founding fathers put the second amendment in just in case the government gets out of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) /s/5 day/7 day/g, and the same. (...) I know. (...) Bzzt. Benito was the fascist. Mr moustache and Mr Red were not fascists. (...) You're _completely_ missing the point. You think I'm equating illegal with bad. I don't necessarily. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| You're missing the point of the Second Amendment, my friend. Please read some of the Founding Father's thoughts on it before you go off into big time debates. Scott Sanburn (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Good point, Scott. In particular try article 8 in the Federalist Papers. Seems pretty clear to me what was intended by the Second Amendment. Then read article 10 to understand why even if the majority thinks that we, for example, should (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I have not read them in many moons, I will have to do so again soon. Thanks for the reference, Larry. Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So I suppose that you're going to say that National Socialism wasn't fascism because it said it wasn't? I'd say the lot of them are close enough, as their regimes had the requisite proportion of trampled rights and jackbooted thugs, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) was (...) This might sound silly, but it just occured to me as interesting that while we have made it illegal to revolt, we have core rules that encourage revolution. Jefferson certainly seems to have thought that periodic revolutions is a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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