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Old 12-05-2007, 11:04 PM   #36
Radar
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Ocala, FL
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It's a shame when some people think that the freedom of others is a shame.

It's a shame when some people think they know better than others how they should exercise freedom.

It's a shame when people are so naive they think bad people will suddenly stop having guns if good people are prevented from exercising their right to own them.

It's a shame when anti-gun/anti-rights people don't realize that they are safer because of pro-gun/pro-freedom people.

It's a shame when anti-gun people give people a death sentence by infringing on their right to keep and carry guns. For instance Sean Taylor of the Washington Redskins was told he could not have a gun for his own protection after using a gun to defend his property earlier. When criminals broke into his house, he had only a machete to defend himself and was killed by guns. If he had a gun, he would have probably scared them away and would still be alive. Several women have died because they were sentenced to death by a 3 day waiting period so they couldn't get a gun to protect them from stalkers and didn't have enough evidence to be put in protective custody.

Sadly, Aliantha doesn't live in a free country so she doesn't understand such concepts. The people of Australia and the nations who didn't break away from the British Empire on their own like America, are used to being "subjects" rather than citizens.

A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject because he is subject to whatever control the people with the guns (government) tell him to do. These subjects can have their earnings, property, and even their lives taken from them and have no recourse or way to prevent it.
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