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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (275)	5/14/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 289

I don't hunt so I can't say anything about your observations there except that people I know have never related such a bleek picture. I understand giving an inch and they will take a mile but the BS level has to be drawn somewhere. There is no real threat of teh British invading anymore which is why we originally wanted an armed society other than for hunting to feed the family and most of the firearms that the NRA fights for now are not hunting rifles either. My understanding is different, that the founding fathers wanted an armed citizen that was a deterrent to a tyrannical government, either within or without, and that it was a "natural right" for a person to defend himself and his family and property. You not only believe history will not repeat itself, you also believe hunting had something to do with the 2nd Amendment (if you find the reference, let me know). Any Jew in the Warsaw ghetto would have been happy to have a .25 hand gun, let alone a fully automatic M-16 or AK-47 (military versions..AR-15 and AK's are semiauto like an M-1), which unfortunately for us are hard to come by and expensive and require a class III license unless you are police or military or a criminal as we are constantly told. Why does government trust an 18 year old with an M-16 to fight for his country and then try to deny him his right to own it in regard to the 2nd Amendment. It's embarassing, I know, to think we need arms to protect us against our own government, so let's stick our head in the sand, pretend the Civil War never happened, the War of 1812 never happened, and certain aspects of WWII never happened. Let's be like England and Australia and learn to like mutton.

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