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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30785)2/13/1999 9:32:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I am NOT cheering for the oppressor, Lather. I just think that if you look at other western democracies, you will see that they live quite nicely with plenty of freedoms and far fewer deaths from gun violence than we have here. Japan might not be your idea of a perfect place, but the people vote for elected leaders and go about unassaulted by rampant political repression, as they do in many countries with free citizens who are mostly unarmed.

I would much rather have my home invaded by police looking for weapons than change the way I go about my day because I am afraid that I will be a victim of a crime. "Wild West" kinds of rights are not the only rights, and I believe my right to go quietly about my life without fear is a significant right that has been given up in America with the proliferation of firearms and sociopathology.

You still haven't explained how it would be possible for the Centers for Disease Control to alter the gun violence deaths reported from other countries, without all of them noticing it. Since this is utterly implausible, I will assume you are not seriously arguing it.

And are you asserting that the pro-gun lobby is absolutely objective in everything that it parades out for public consumption?
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