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- From: jim.wray@yob.sccsi.com (Jim Wray)
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- Subject: Re: 1.2 Million Handgun D
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:21:00 GMT
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- Michael P. Brininstool wrote amongst other things....
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- MPB>>> You can massage numbers and wave them at each other from now until Slick
- MPB>>> Willie is run out of office, and it will change nothing. Except the read
- MPB>>> ship of the newsgroup. It will move it down to two.
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- MPB>I think the whole argument is irrelevant. I do not care how many times a
- MPB>gun is used or misuded a year. The Constitution says I can have a gun, I
- MPB>WILL have a gun, no law infringing that right will be observed! PERIOD!
- MPB>You can try to justify why they should be taken away, or why they
- MPB>shouldn't, but the main reason we have them now is the Second Amendment.
- MPB>You want to argue that the Second Amendment is being misinterpreted, then
- MPB>read the letters written by the people who wrote the Constitution and the
- MPB>Bill of Rights, addressed to the public, explaining what they meant, and
- MPB>why they were there. You want to argue that the founding fathers wouldn't
- MPB>have allowed this if they knew about auto and semi-auto weapons, horse
- MPB>shit! Fully auto weapons, or close to it, were around in that time period,
- MPB>but were experimental. Even if they were not, By that logic, the
- MPB>newpapers and books and public speeches are protected by the first. That
- MPB>would mean that TV, movies, and radio are NOT protected by the first
- MPB>amendment!
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- Michael.....
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- ....well said. I think we need to think more along these lines
- because erosion is a slow but sure process and we seem to be more and more
- inclined to accepting/rationalizing each little anti-second amendment move. We
- shouldn't give an inch on this and if that's perceived as being negative,
- so be it.....I want "them" to tell me how many inches of their First Amendment
- rights they are willing to forgo!
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- . OLX 2.2 . People who kill people give guns a bad name
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