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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (679250)	4/13/2005 5:37:39 PM
From: Howard C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

All those people you quoted must be unpatriotic!! These right wingers are so screwed up...they feign patriotism, but they have no clue for what this country stands...and even if they do, are more than willing to give it up without a fight. I say, if they were in charge during the Revolution, we would all be speaking with British accents and drinking warm beer.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (679250)	4/13/2005 5:48:21 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN is right. There are several factors in play. One is the technological advancements that make a single person potentially much more dangerous and another is the growing number of people and the compromises and loss of privacy because of it. * * *

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (679250)	4/13/2005 6:11:56 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Where you and I apparently disagree, I havent felt my liberty being infringed upon. Making sure I am not a terrorist and if I were a terrorist stopping me before I kill thousands of innocent people isnt giving up liberty. Frankly, the alternative is ANARCHY. Can you IMAGIN how many people would form vigilante committees and stringing up every Arab looking person in sight if they lost faith in the government taking care of business? jdn

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (679250)	4/13/2005 8:01:57 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.) "The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.) "The advantage of being armed . . . the Americans possess over the people of all other nations . . . Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in his Federalist Paper No. 46.) "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Second Amendment to the Constitution.)