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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: microhoogle! who wrote (40554)	9/28/2000 10:16:33 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

How is it that people in other countries do not remotely associate with the sentiment that a militia should be maintained? Their governments are young and inexperienced in democracy and indeed they are used to being subjects, not citizens. This country raised a militia and received aid from France and defeated what they deemed a tyrannical govt. The militia exists as the body of citizens of this country and is not maintained in a formal way as you allude. Due to some fractured syntax I am unable to understand whether you feel this cannot happen again. I say your arguments are emotional in comparison to mine which relate to statistics. You pretty much ignore them (statistics), but they show that Australia had no firearm related crime wave, only a single incident (like Tim McVeigh) that precipated gun confiscation. You are easily manipulated by the press (Tim McVeigh) and confuse radical elements with the more general sentiments of millions that we have too many laws in general and too many bad laws in particular. That alone is the beginning of tyranny. There doesn't need to be conspiracy. Self-defense is the principle underlying the 2nd and gun ownership and applies equally to crime and tyranny. Again, no talk of conspiracy.