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To: DMaA who wrote (2325)4/24/2000 7:53:00 PM
From: Wallace Rivers  Respond to of 9127
 
What if there were guns?! Well, I damn sure would want to be able to protect my "incompetent boob" self.



To: DMaA who wrote (2325)4/24/2000 8:02:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
This would seem, then, to apply to the US citizen members of the Border Patrol -

"It is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT for US citizens to own guns."

So .... um, what's the problem?



To: DMaA who wrote (2325)4/24/2000 10:13:00 PM
From: chalu2  Respond to of 9127
 
>>There were no guns but what if there were? It is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT for US citizens to own guns.<<

You've just made the point better than I ever could as to why these agents had to go in heavily armed. They just might have just encountered citizens exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.


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