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[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> My unbridled respect for law abiding citizens has been shaken.
> Still, i agree.
> It's just that they behave so badly sometimes..pf
> 
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Bingo Pete, I can't think of a better argument for 
>> allowing law abiding citizens to carry fire arms.

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	One other thing - Right here in  Jerry's words lie the thinly veiled 
problems with notions such as "government" and "law" in the American 
mind (as well as many others who live "democratically").  If we assume 
that we are all equal as living beings (not accounting for differences 
in physical and mental faculties, but just as "souls" for lack of a 
better term), then whose place is it to allow or disallow much of 
anything?  Here the ideal comes into some conflict with the practical, 
we all know - but that conflict is actually VERY tiny.  It has become 
large because people have made it that way.  The problem resides nowhere 
else but between peoples' ears.

	Once accepted, "equality" directly leads to rights such as those to 
preserve one's life or that of another.  Such a right directly leads to 
the right to the MEANS of doing so, and therefore there is NO legitimate 
basis for denying anyone the right to the means of defense.  None. 
Zero.  Nada.  Zilch.  Tween.  Zip.  Nichts.  Semmi.  Nyichevo.


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