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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64145)	5/23/2005 4:52:34 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

SnowshoeRe: "enough ammo" I have a whole collection of guns but only one I purchased myself (a .22 single shot rifle). All family handmedowns. A brass framed 1866 Henry lever action that belonged to Great Grandfather. A 1891 Swiss of Grandfathers. A converted cap and ball Kentucky rifle that was a flintlock when an ancestor carried it in the Revolution (so the family legend goes). A pair of M1 Carbines given to Uncles by the Guard during a "red scare" of the late 1940's. A bunch of pistols, shotguns, military rifles ect. all inherited. And there is nothing particularly unusual about my collection, except that all this stuff was in the family. I know bunches of folks around here with a much larger and more potent collection. I have a whole bunch of books too, some were in the family in the late 1700's. I have law books and textbooks ancestors used in college back BEFORE the Civil War. Do you come from a long line of educated folk? Slagle

To: Snowshoe who wrote (64145)	5/23/2005 5:04:17 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Speaking of long tails, you have to wonder if they are just on the bell curve ;-)

To: Snowshoe who wrote (64145)	5/25/2005 5:36:18 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

Snowshoe, I don't know if you'll ever have enough time and interest to actually study history, but I have to say that you're the second poster in the past 24 hours who has labeled me a "conspiracy theorist". I've got a different take on this, and I'll refer you to this reply: Message 21356286 It is useful to distiguish facts from theories. And it is also a mild admonishment of your facile derision to point out that Santayana had a point, and that the Rothschilds and the Bushes didn't get to where they are by faith-based acquiescence to fate. Conspiracies have been the normal route to acquiring wealth and power for as long as humans have organized into anything larger than tribal units.