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Subject: 
Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:23:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

Do you think they really could understand how it could work out?

Not the details, but the general idea.

How modern
media makes politicians almost instantly accountable?

Probably not.  But I'm not sure that it is a significant difference in the
context of protection of freedoms.  It is certainly significant from the POV of
the potential politician.

How in transparent
systems, like the UK, those funding politicians would be dragged out into
the open?

I just don't know how that works, or really what you mean.  Maybe I just don't
know enough about the differences between our nations.

You will have to educate me a little here, did everyone get the vote from
day one?

Everyone who counted.  Our social context has changed so much that we think
that old way was seriously bad (and I certainly agree) but they weren't
excluding people who mattered.

Men and woman at the same age? African Americans? Native Americans?

No, no, no.

Were the ballots secret? Did husbands vote for there wives?

I think it varried, and I think not.

But so what?  No nation in the world has ever given the vote to all the
citizens.  Yours doesn't and neither does mine.  And I think that's an
abomination, but there it is.

It shows how time changes things. What was good a few 100 years ago, might
not be quite so good today.

Scott A


Chris



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  Re: Handgun Death Rate
 
(...) Not the details, but the general idea. (...) Probably not. But I'm not sure that it is a significant difference in the context of protection of freedoms. It is certainly significant from the POV of the potential politician. (...) I just don't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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