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To: The Philosopher who wrote (42360)	6/28/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

>The basic philosophies of Europe and Japan put the rights of society as a whole above the rights of the individuals. They circumscribe many personal liberties, including the right to own guns, in the name of the public good. The US generally (though this is declining) respects individual rights as a primary value. Including the right to bear arms. Our focus on individual rights is at the root of our success as a nation and of our insistence of the personal right to own guns.< And that is why they have less violent societies. Compromises are always made- by giving up some individual freedom they have a less violent society and thus MORE freedom to walk their streets at night and the freedom not to be murdered quite as frequently. Freedom from violence is another kind of freedom- you may not rate it highly but I do. And I am a patriot. It is not unpatriotic to desire change- if THAT were unpatriotic then the rebels who broke away from England would have been unpatriotic. It is not unpatriotic of Christine to wish (if she does indeed wish this) that we take some of the strategies she deems successful in other countries and implement them here. You may not agree with her vision, but the fact that you do not agree with her does not make her unpatriotic.