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Old Apr 1, 2008, 12:09 pm   #171 (permalink) (top)
Chris the Chees
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I wonder how hard 300,000,000 guns inthe hands of citizens would make it on that invading army?
Is that it? That is your argument? You are defending a clearly unnecessary social blight by suggesting that guns in the hands of citizens to hold off an invasion force and/or to prevent the rise of a dictatorial government? Those may have been legitimate fears in the eighteenth century; but not any more, today they are paranoid delusions and the substance of novels.

Seriously, dude, you need to get past the eighteenth century.


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