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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (80062)	4/24/2000 4:35:00 PM
From: Exacctnt	Respond to of 132070

The ability to protect one's self is assumed to be associated with the worst of times - not the best. That's the rational behind fighting gun control, especially registering firearms. For the record I have never even fired a gun. I've shot a variety of weapons from a bb gun as a youngster to a 175mm gun and 8 inch Howitzer as an artilleryman in Nam.(The 175mm gun had a 36 foot barrel) I will never willingly be deprived of my right to bear arms. Regards

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (80062)	4/24/2000 4:53:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Wayne - [[>>Some people may now be beginning to wonder, if you take away my gun, how am I going to protect myself against black booted thugs from the government bashing down my door.<< I believe that's the core reason for the right to bear arms.]] This is true, but only part of the story. The real key is that the government be deterred from a miscalculation that it can establish absolute rule through confiscation with acceptable losses. This is why the registration of weapons must be avoided at all costs, in order to maintain a healthy level of doubt of success in the minds of the would be rulers. Without registration, every household is a potential unquantifiable threat to a confiscation plan, whether the household actually has or wants a weapon at all. Regards, Don