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Re: An armed society...
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:05:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > 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.
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> What if a society is mature enough to decide that guns have no place in the
> community? Is that society no longer "free"?
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> Scott A
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.
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| (...) Strange that you view that as an eventuality rather than a possibility. I prefer life in a society where we are able to take the decision to live largely without guns. Earlier, somebody said they needed a gun for protection from the big bad (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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