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Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
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Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:17:09 GMT
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   Your reasoning is obtuse. “We have guns to enforce the peace!” Well, other countries have *greater* peace and yet, with that, less guns.

Peace without freedom is oppression and/or slavery for “the good of society.”

   Stop with the fuzzy Hestonesque gun-speak and deal with the actual issue--less guns equals less deaths by guns. Guns in ‘law abiding citizens can hand have ended up in the hands of non-law abiding citizens. If the gun wasn’t there to begin with, it never would have got on teh black market.

Except that most of the Black Market guns come from overseas smuggling, not domestic theft. It is cheaper, easier, and safer on a large scale.

-Mike Petrucelli



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