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> After the founding fathers
> wrote the Constitution, they started to get
> freaked out that the Brits might return, so they
> wrote an amendment saying we all had a right
> to have a musket in our cabins.
Wrong. This another example of popular revisionism.
I believe it was the Brits who were freaked out. THe Brits had never heard of
such a thing a citizens bearing arms and the second amendment say arms not
muskets.
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> That turned
> out not to be not such a bad idea 'cause the
> Brits did return in 1812 (thanks guys), but ever
> since then, the Second Amendment has been
> more like the Second Commandment. It made
> a lot of sense then; it makes no sense now.
> The potential foreign invaders or a possible
> rogue American government we are
> supposed to be ready to fight with our pistols
> and shotguns now all have atomic bombs
> and sonic jet fighters -- and there ain't nothin'
> I can keep in my garage that's going to fend
> off that kind of firepower.
Unfortunately, history provides ample evidence that the bigger they are the
more abusive governments become. Take the Romans for instance, It too had a
parliament. They merely enslaved 4 out of every five people in the empire.
BTW, we all do not have atomic bombs and the size of my neighbor's gun(an
atomic bomb) doesnot deprive me of my right and responsibility to protect my
family.
I <snipped > this pathetic TV dribble. IT is unfortunate that a TV
commentator
is held as an authority these days.
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> Last year, in a nation of over 50 million
> people, with strict guns laws, there was a
> total of 30 handgun murders in Great Britain.
> Thirty.
They use knives now and the people are just as dead.
I was in Germany for the last few weeks and they were saying that they could
not understand how this shooting in Littleton could happen. "WE don't have
this in Europe. IT must be that cowboy mentality in America." The very next
day 5 people were shot coming out of a disco in Germany. It got a 10 minute
news spot. That was it. IT happens there too. It just that the media
doesn't spend several weeks on it. The Germans seem more interested in the
antics of the Green party.
Charles Kaucher
of Ipswich, MA. http://www.ipswichma.com
If your parents take care of you until you finish teething, you must
also take care of them when they lose their teeth. -- African Proverb
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