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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (53578)8/31/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
but frankly, we have some problems in gun land.

Yes, you do. And for many years despite being basically libertarian in principle I favored strict gun regulations, not seeing a need for citizens to be armed in the 1970s as they needed to be in the 1770s.

But then I look at some of the things the federal government is doing, and at the latest Waco revelations, and I start worrying about a heavily armed government and an unarmed citizenry. This is NOT the FBI I learned about in school. Having Delta Force troops at a domestic civilian arrest site is scary. I am not normally a conspiracist theorist, but the federal armed forces are not as benign as I used to believe they were.

I think it's important to realize that the people who make up our police and military were brought up with the same attitude toward violence as the rest of us.

Edit: I have never owned a gun and have never lived in a home which had a gun in it. But I am contemplating changing that.
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