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Re: An armed society...
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:09:05 GMT
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> > My point being that to consider it "a necessary evil and be done with it"
> > discounts the possibility of it ever changing, and that would be pretty
> > short-sighted, even for US citizens.
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> Head-on disagreement here. I think it would be short-sighted for anyone not
> bearing arms to think of themselves as being free. It is said that "freemen
> bear arms" because it is both a freedom and duty of one that wishes to
> remain free.
What if a society is mature enough to decide that guns have no place in the
community? Is that society no longer "free"?
Scott A
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| (...) Of course they're still free... until someone comes and takes that freedom away. Then those "free" people might wish they had the means to keep that freedom. (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, there is stuff that is covered by the federal government to make trade and travel amongst the many states more or less an easy thing -- one of the true limited purposes of the U.S. federal govt. I have no problems with any of that. But (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) !
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