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Old 05-26-2007, 08:31 AM   #525
Spexxvet
Makes some feel uncomfortable
 
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
Ringer's Paradox: it states, with considerable justice, that A freedom restricted is a freedom preserved.

In practice, laws of that kind are codified with the aim of preventing problems arising from exercising a freedom with absolutely no limitation whatsoever. The freedom to swing a fist ends where the other fellow's nose begins, and so forth. That is what Ringer's statement amounts to.
So restricting guns (not that I endorse it) is an effort to preserve that freedom - cool!
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