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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
jails
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I'm perfectly willing to have the government collect taxes to pay for law enforcement; that is a proper function of government.
Oh, by the way, your sig line is totally bogus.
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Originally Posted by spexxvet
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetant"-Robert A. Heinlein
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Heinlein never, ever said that. You've confused him with Asimov's character in the Foundation series, Hari Seldon. Which pretty much indicates you haven't read much Heinlien...or if you did you didn't inhale
Appropriate Heinlein quotes might be:
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
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"An armed society is a polite society."
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"There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men."
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"I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose."
Heinlein and Asimov had nothing in common except both being SF writers and having worked together at the Frankford Arsenel in Philly duriung WWII. Hanging his name on that wishful pacifism desecrates his memory.