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An armed society...
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Date: 
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:58:59 GMT
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... is a society with countless tragedies!

Sorry Heinlein, your sci-fi books were all fantastic, but your ideas suck.



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  Re: An armed society...
 
(...) Where is this comming from? The guy is dead. Furthermore an unarmed society only works in Star Trek, where people actually have no apparent reason to fear their neighbors or their government. (22 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: An armed society...
 
(...) Eh? Where'd this come from? Are you trying to manufacture a political debate? Anyway, as a strictly amateur political scientist[1] I would never make such a blatant generalization. It depends on the culture, the state of mind of the society in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: An armed society...
 
(...) Since this has evolved into a gun control debate, I thought the original message should be returned to. "An armed society is a polite society," is the quote used often by gun advocates to somehow indicate that politeness-by-threat is somehow (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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