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Old Oct 27, 2008, 04:37 pm   #37 (permalink)
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How many would have suffered if they hadn't used a gun for self defense? GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense?

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The Enumeration in the Constitution, of certain Rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the People.
"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."
--- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763,reprinted in 3 The Works of John Adams 438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).


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