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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (85040)9/17/2008 12:31:37 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 543695
 
>>That's a simple answer: I am a US citizen, protected by the Bill of Rights. Countries who might attack have no constitutional rights. <<

MM -

As Thomas Jefferson wrote, "All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." He didn't say, "All Americans," he said all men.

I don't understand thinking that the lives of people who happen to have been born in other countries are somehow not as important as our own.

I watched the video. I kept thinking the fact that the nutcase in the restaurant had a gun, and the fact the the speaker might have had a gone sort of balanced each other out, in terms of the net effect of gun laws on what happened that day.

- Allen
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