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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (54036)	9/1/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

If you hold federal agents at bay, and stockpile weapons which you think you have a right to use against lawful agents of our elected government- then no tears for you. If you get your kids killed, I would cry for them, but I would put the blame for their demise primarily on your shoulders for your stupidity. 2nd amendment- well gosh now. I think there is a difference between owning a gun or a few guns and "stockpiling" weapons. Not that the second amendment makes such a difference- but I sure do- and I suspect most people here do. But maybe they don't. The type of taxation enforced by the BATF is not the sort of taxation we fought a revolution to stop. It was ALL allegedly about representation- which we have now. Of course it was really about wealth and power- which is what everything is always about. And how are we "unfairly taxed". Let us say YOU think we are unfairly taxed. By European standards we are not unfairly taxed. There is no way to measure "fair" taxation- there is no Platonic pure form of just taxation. We elect a government that chooses to do certain things- they tax us to do those things. Fair? Not really a concept that applies- but it makes for nice rhetoric. As for the Revolution- I've already said I would have been against it. I look at Canada and Australia and think, DAMN, I wish we'd stayed a fu*king colony.